European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Monday a 500 million euros ($566.6 million) incentive package to boost European science research, as Europe hopes to lure top U.S. scientists disgruntled with President Donald Trump.
"Science is an investment – and we need to offer the right incentives. This is why I can announce that we will put forward a new 500 million euros package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers," she said at a speech in Paris alongside French President Emmanuel Macron.
Politicizing and defunding science that doesn't meed the Deer Leedur's ideology is one of the reasons why nobody ever heard of leading Soviet biologists after 1950 or German physics breakthroughs after 1935. Once the top scientists have decamped for another country, building that back up takes decades.
In the case of the U.S., few will bite at restored programs, since everyone will be aware that all it will take is the election of another low-wattage, knowledge-hating old cracker to the presidency to wreck things once again. Because knowing things is just so woke, donchaknow.
Which is kind of the point: It takes generations to build up a top-shelf science and research establishment and it takes weeks to destroy it all.
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What dystopian future lies in wait for us and our children; Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, dysfunctional Ai masters, or maybe back to feudalism? And endless civil wars of succession while we look at the shining European cities on their pedestals built from science and grovel in a slum like existence only to die in our old age 20's. Now thinking it will be more like a Mad Max wasteland with nuclear weapons in play.
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