Opinion: I’ve spent 40 years in research. I have never seen a threat to science like the new grantmaking rule

Childhood leukemia, a likely death sentence when I was a medical student, is now survivable for most children. Cancer immunotherapy is extending life for many who would have died a decade ago. New technology is letting us repair genetic diseases at their source. The same American scientific research enterprise that produced these breakthroughs also gave us GPS, the modern semiconductor, and the early architecture of the internet. All of it came out of an American research enterprise that the federal government is now proposing to fundamentally rewire for no good reason.Read the rest…