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the sequester is responsible for a tremendous amount of damage that's being
done to scientific research in the United States
it has cut funding for research and development projects
across a wide swath of government agencies by 9.3
billion dollars that's a huge hit two signs
when you look %uh specifically at the funding for the National Institute of
Health
they have 700 fewer grants that were funded this year
and they've specifically taking a cut above one point seven billion dollars
soul research %uh
has been severely limited and even on things that you would think we probably
shouldn't country search for so for example sickle cell disease cut fallacy
me up
malaria heart disease degenerative arthritis cancer
and because %uh various according to new data compiled by coalition top
scientific and medical researchers
nearly 20 percent all scientists
in the United States are considering moving overseas
now
whether or not you're up personal fan of Science right I mean I often get accused
have
a believing and scientism which i think is a goofy term
it's like the over-reliance on science how can you over rely on a process
the processes let's figure out what's correct
you rely too much on figuring out what's correct okay
guilty as charged but no matter what your personal feelings are about science
understand it has
such incredible a substantive affects our lives
so why do you think for example the average age now is
won the modern yes your old 78 eighty thereabouts
whereas go back if you lived in
the year 1856 before we really developed
empirically in medically what happened before the alignment what happened
are you kidding me people would be putting leeches on you and robbing snake
oil on your face when
you know you've got cancer nato or it's going to be fine
all he died going to four minutes this time
you know I'm not quite sure what we're doing is working I do anyway
we okay science came along and fixed on that right
so but it should be a non-partisan issue which shouldn't be a question
one other things that should never be on the chopping block is science
unless you actually wanna decrease our quality of life I mean that's what this
is the debate is
do you want to increase our quality of life or should we decrease it
I'm on the side of decreasing for much wonderful
glad to know those are the people that are running our government so twenty
percent %uh scientists are like
look what I do all day is another part to study
they set all I'm doing is begging for grant money like all sit there the
majority my day will be writing letters baking politicians are saying hey look
tiny grant money
there was a story the other day we can talk about but I was considering
bringing it up on the show
there was I believe it was in Florida there was a group for researchers
that raked a congressman to coming there they had said it was ready for speech
but you know they end up telling look we just needed to get you in your suite
explain to you what we're doing in
so you can push for grant money for us because we're on the verge of making
breakthroughs
and if we don't have a grandma me when I can be able to do it I
and the guy actually said okay I I hear ya I'm actually gonna try doing now
whether or not you will do it is a different question
because he's a republican but nonetheless that's the level that the
scientists are out where they're just flat out begging interesting to try to
get look I need the money I gotta get something done here
and the report was more than 3,700 scientists from all 50 states
they participated and
I mean look there's really nothing more to say other than
if we could sit down remember
initially with the sequester the reaction was
you know there's news reports that there's some fifteen minute delays at
the airport
or you know the congress is gonna Russian refund if that part of the
sequester that we cut we're going to refund
all the things for aviation and they did right meanwhile
the same time that was going on their articles about how
cancer clinics were closing because they lost funding from the sequester
did the politicians rushed rush to address that no
they know it all why we do that in person only affect and the
twenty-minute always an airport that affected a so what is it about image we
have to refund
well his weekly a catch you're gonna wish you refund if the cancer clinics
and a this is another area where it should be good at the top of the list of
things to prioritize
but they never prioritize the things that they should