{"id":28006,"date":"2026-06-09T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=28006"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:45:15","slug":"the-destruction-of-american-scientific-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2026\/06\/09\/the-destruction-of-american-scientific-research\/","title":{"rendered":"The Destruction of American Scientific Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Deport 106 million illegals??<\/li>\n<li>More misunderstandings or lies about how California elections works;<\/li>\n<li>More about how experience, knowledge, and talent are being marginalized by the current US government;<\/li>\n<li>Items about 60 Minutes;<\/li>\n<li>Activity today: a brief jury duty experience (posted on Facebook).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\">&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/div>\n<p><em>\u2014 Conservative morality is superstitious cave-man tribalism \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GregBovino-2-660x330.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>JMG, today<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2026\/06\/bovino-as-president-ill-deport-106-million-illegals\/\">Bovino: As President I\u2019ll Deport \u201c106 Million Illegals\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Nearly a third of the nation consists of illegal aliens? He&#8217;s bonkers.<\/li>\n<li>(Not to mention, does he not realize what deporting that many people would do to the American economy? No, he does not. And if he did, he wouldn&#8217;t care. It&#8217;s all about getting those icky non-white people out of the country.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Because real men.<\/li>\n<li><strong>JMG, today<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2026\/06\/watters-at-least-trump-goes-to-pro-sports-games-democrats-dont-even-go-they-go-to-pride-parades\/\">Watters: \u201cAt Least Trump Goes To Pro Sports Games, Democrats Don\u2019t Even Go, They Go To Pride Parades\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Conservatives live in a black and white world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>And about the elections.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.politifact.com\/politifact\/rulings\/tom_ruling_pof.png\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Politifact, yesterday<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2026\/jun\/08\/donald-trump\/California-election-LA-governor-Spencer-Pratt\/\">The ongoing ballot counting in California means \u201cthey\u2019re cheating on the election.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rating: Pants on Fire!<\/li>\n<li>My understanding: Republicans vote in person, Democrats tend to mail in votes, so they arrive later and take longer to count. California allows all ballots postmarked by election day to be counted. Republicans simply refuse to understand this. This has been true for years. Also: why would anyone think that a heavily-Democratic state would elect Republicans at all? (It&#8217;s happened before, but not for decades.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>JMG, today<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2026\/06\/maga-activist-if-other-countries-ran-their-elections-like-california-we-would-invade-and-liberate-them\/\">Newsmax Guest: If Other Countries Ran Their Elections Like California, We Would \u201cInvade And Liberate Them\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>More deliberate misinformation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>JMG, today<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2026\/06\/vance-its-shady-for-california-to-count-all-ballots\/\">Vance: It\u2019s \u201cShady\u201d For California To Count All Ballots<\/a><\/li>\n<li>No, it&#8217;s not. Is he a dimwit, or simply disingenuous?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\\<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Destruction, Tear-Downs, Cancellations \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More about the ongoing destruction of 60 Minutes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!kdn3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffdac539-bb86-49e4-ad17-dabed3b8c3d8_934x391.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Reich, yesterday<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/experience-knowledge-and-talent-need\">Experience, Knowledge, and Talent Need Not Apply<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;Trump suck-ups are poisoning America \u2014 not just inside the U.S. government&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I remember when CBS News was the most admired news organization in America \u2014 home to Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow. They spoke truth to power. Cronkite had the guts to challenge Lyndon Johnson\u2019s war in Vietnam. Murrow had the guts to expose Joe McCarthy and his communist witch hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Now, CBS News is a disgraced shell of a news organization that last week fired famed \u201c60 Minutes\u201d senior correspondent Scott Pelley after gutting most of the rest of its team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Why was Weiss doing this? Presumably because her boss, David Ellison, wants to suck up to Trump, and hired Weiss to help him \u2014 and she hired Bilton to aid her in doing so. And she fired other staff because they wouldn\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then about Bill Pulte and Todd Blanche and others.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is how dictators poison the organizations a free society depends on. Trump is destroying CBS News by putting suck-ups David Ellison and Bari Weiss in charge, just as he\u2019s destroying the Department of Justice and the Office of National Intelligence by putting suck-ups Todd Blanche and Bill Pulte in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, a dictator will always be able to find people whose blind ambition exceeds their integrity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\\<\/p>\n<p>Others.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Slate, Nitish Pahwa, 5 Jun 2026<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/business\/2026\/06\/cbs-scott-pelley-60-minutes-bari-weiss.html\">The Clock Is Ticking for <em>60 Minutes<\/em>: subtitled &#8220;The legendary news show is profitable, popular, and iconic. It still might not survive its own network.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Guardian, Edward Helmore, yesterday<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/jun\/07\/scott-pelley-bari-weiss-renee-good-report\">Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss wanted 60 Minutes to say Renee Good was \u2018driving toward officer\u2019<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;Fired journalist accuses CBS News chief of interfering with report because it did not echo Trump\u2019s view of the shooting&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Robert Reich, 7 Jun 2026<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/robertreich.substack.com\/p\/trump-fired-scott-pelley\">Trump fired Scott Pelley<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;The dictator doesn&#8217;t want &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; to report the truth&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And then this.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/06\/09\/opinion\/09ficane\/09ficane-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>NY Times, guest essay by Melissa L. Finucane, today<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/09\/opinion\/science-federal-government-funding.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pFA.7jX0.S-iJwj2w4uGE&amp;smid=url-share\">Trump\u2019s Assaults on Scientific Research Just Got Worse<\/a> [gift link]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new kind of institutional vandalism appeared last month in the form of a 412-page Trump administration <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2026-10817.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">regulatory proposal<\/a> and a comment period. If the proposal passes, it will damage one of the most rigorous, productive and valuable scientific enterprises in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">The Office of Management and Budget has called for a rule change that would impose <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/02\/us\/politics\/trump-budget-grants-omb-vought.html\">restrictions<\/a> on the kinds of research that can be funded and give political appointees the final authority to deny federal funding for research deemed inconsistent with presidential priorities. Such a revision is necessary, the agency said, because there is a \u201clack of transparency, accountability and proper oversight\u201d in the way federal funds are dispersed. That led to the waste and misuse of federal funds to \u201cpromote a \u2018woke\u2019 policy agenda,\u201d according to the agency, particularly the diversity, equity and inclusion programs of the Biden years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I keep wondering, why are they doing this? Are they stupid, or evil?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about politics subverting the scientific process. Evil? Well, close. They&#8217;re about lies, in support of tribalism, over truth.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deport 106 million illegals?? 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