> I'm okay with the CDC being torn down. They lied and lost all trust.
Unfortunately, advanced technological based civilization is not "ok" with destroying the collective and knowledge based activities of scientific research. One can't advance far if you stop science when it makes mistakes - the advantage of science is it finds and fixes the mistakes. This, and the federal funding of research, is why the collective knowledge of humanity is doubling ever decade or so.
The only collective and knowledge based activities of scientific research that the people have access to is sci-hub, who have done more to advance scientific understanding for humanity than most government institutions have in decades
Except for people that live near research libraries, which is a lot of people. I use sci-hub and don't like Springer, but it's hard to see how most government [research] institutions haven't advanced our knowledge in decades. That just seems like another statement which is not so. (BTW, when you go to math conventions, at least, there are multiple open access tables in the exhibit hall, to reduce the cost of the free sharing of knowledge that is so essential).
This is an extremely odd question. Are you not familiar with the NSF or NIH?
> I'm okay with the CDC being torn down. They lied and lost all trust.
You are a danger to public health.
> As for grants they are paused. Those organizations didn't earn it.
Did USAID also not earn the right to get funding to provide lifesaving drugs so that babies don’t contract HIV? Who decided that they didn’t “earn it”?
> I also understand there's a 8 month severance for voluntary vacating. This is very generous even for a tyrant.
You don’t understand correctly — the offer was for 8 months of work, from home. Then they would be separated in September. It’s also not actually clear that OPM has the legal authority to make this offer, so anyone accepting it may not actually get what they signed up for.
