What Next TBD | Trump's War on Scientific Research

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🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The National Institutes of Health is the primary engine of biomedical research around the world, which makes the Trump administration's dramatic cuts to its grant program both confusing and potentially incredibly harmful. Guest: Katherine J. Wu, staff writer for the Atlantic. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.1	Two weeks ago, Professor Jace Flatt got a letter from the National Institutes of Health
1:07.7	about his federal grant money.
1:10.1	It said, this award no longer effectuates
1:14.2	agency priorities. Jace Flat is one of many researchers who had a grant terminated by the NIH.
1:22.7	That's Catherine Wu, who writes about science for the Atlantic. She spoke to Flatt. He's an associate professor at the
1:28.9	University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who studies aging and dementia in LGBTQ people. And actually,
1:35.3	in his case, it was multiple grants. The last I heard from him, it was two grants, and it is
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