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Up To 1000 NIH Investigators Dropped Out Last Year

Posted by timothy on from the this-epidemic-must-be-studied-somehow dept.

sciencehabit writes "New data show that after remaining more or less steady for a decade, the number of investigators with National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding dropped sharply last year by at least 500 researchers and as many as 1000. Although not a big surprise—it came the same year that NIH's budget took a 5% cut—the decline suggests that a long-anticipated contraction in the number of labs supported by NIH may have finally begun."

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  1. Re:Welcome to a third-rate USA by superwiz · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Hate to brake to you, but this was 100% on Democrats. Spending went up. It just didn't go towards NIH funding. And it is the Democrats (the party in power) who decided where the funding went.

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