1 Yeah, if your in progress research project completely disappears when the funding stops, a) you have not gotten on board with some of the data retrieval requirements attached to some of the newer iterations of funding programs b) your white mutiny probably ought not involve literally murdering any of your graduate students and other 'colleagues'.  Okay, yes, this stuff is actually pretty shit for an in progress project with a jelled team.  That is why academia merrily inflicting it on the 'uneducated' and sparing themselves was discriminatory as shit. 

PhDs are like 1 to 2% of America, pushing Biden and Harris was incredibly terrible marketing for the now butthurt academics, and their incomes were completely founded in people being willing to trust them.

The thing none of these nitwits understand is that me attaching any positive future valuation to their work is that it involves me trusting them to some degree, and believing that they are not a bunch of Mengeles who are personally motivated only to do invalid work.

Yes, actually, I am ignorant about good that research in behavior, or in law or medicine might accomplish.  Yes, if you research that stuff, and need my funding sign off, it is your responsibility to persuade me by informing me of what and why. 

But, the same Austrian economics that means that I am not fully informed if I just decide to write off the utility of some research project, sight unseen, means that academics cannot be fully informed about other parts of the economy, if their research involves shutting down those parts of the economy by force.  Yet, the medical researchers largely went alogn with acting on that basis in 2020, and right now the climate science researchers are merrily doign the same thing.  For example.  The widespread tolerance of CRT and critical theory in behavioral academia, is basically also this choice with regard to the anti-black white supremacist race riots of 2020, or the general academic misconduct about some related things where the academic 'consensus' claim is a peace violation itself.

One, modern universities seem committed to shielding their Mengeles and other sorts of terrible researchers.  They will represent themselves dishonestly as to whether they are doing due diligence in the people they are hiring and supervising, or in changing policy in response to things that they claim are true.  The policy changes are inconsistent between the changes made, and the changes left unmade, and the result is apparently discriminatory. 

If the economic hardship of 2020 were inflicted on just about any peasants prior to mechanization of agricultural, the peasants would have literally lynched  academics for doing that to them.  Modern society is wealthy enough that some degree of mercy is actually practical.  American public's instincts are actually quite good, and so we have a 'making-sure-it-never-happens-again' remedy that is much nicer than the slit trenches that this sort of strategic miscalculation usually gets in civil wars. 

But, the remedy apparent in the other advice academia gives would have been to stop all of the academic programs, proper and improper, by literally chopping up the peopel with machetes.  Certain behavioral specialists, by long term study of those theories of behavior, have culturally diverged from the American mainstream, are no longer same culture, and de-colonization says that they should be killed. 

Anyway, the academics are being left alive, and have the opportunity to find more productive things to do with their lives than continuing to double down on Biden and Harris tier murderous ignorance and stupidity.  That is an outcome they should be celebrating. 

Anyway, the medical research at the non-Harvard universities is also soemthing I have pretty zero confidence in.  There are two incredibly distinct 'ways of knowing', and the speech pattern that does not disenchant people with the other perception absolutely does disenchant me. 

2 Also, generally, I would absolutely by default not be trusting medical researchers to deliver safe effective results on vaccines or cures now even without the lockdown, the Palestine shit, the Bidens, the electoral fraud, the legal discrimination, and a few other things. I know what discernment they have shown about the basic technologies they apply, and what they know about the essential implications of what they think they are doing. Specific researchers, maybe, but as a corporate whole based on public statements they have zero credibility. Now, some of that is coerced from them by outsiders, but still. (I might in fact be more willing to trust medical researchers if the alternate universe hypothetical includes no AGW, no CRT, no ecology, and the behavioral folks not screwing up their own fields for decades.)

3 I thought that any research project receiving federal funding was required to maintain records of their data?  How is it just gone unless they (Check notes.) wiped the hard drives and burned the papers themselves?

Pretty good song from Swing Out Sister, but Twilight World is my personal favorite.

4 Twilight World is a good one.