Forbes December 14, 2025
Bruce Y. Lee

Former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle once said, “What a waste it is to lose one’s mind.” Well, you know what else is a waste? Cutting or terminating grant funding for a scientific project before the work is done. Well, that is what’s been happening this year to many, many different scientific projects that had been fully supported by the National Institutes of Health or National Science Foundation before 2025 with an emphasis on the words “had been.”

If you haven’t noticed, this year the Trump administration have been treating funding for science like cheese and been cutting the cheese in all sorts of ways. This has included the mass canceling of scientific grants and withholding scientific grants from universities...

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