America will pay dearly for the NIH’s mindless war on wokeness and DEI

National Institutes of Health announced a 15 percent cap on funding for research on February 7 .

John Sutter : The cuts are part of a ham-fisted effort by the Trump administration to gut federal spending while rooting out “wokeness” Sutter says cuts of this magnitude will be devastating.

He says the cuts will create roadblocks for fledgling scientists.

Every dollar in NIH research grants generates $ 2.46 in economic activity, research shows.

NIH -funded academic and private labs fuel the roughly $57 billion US market for sophisticated scientific tools and equipment.

The research is a key driver of private sector innovation.

The $1.7 trillion US biotech industry was built on a century of government-funded discoveries.