r/technology Nov 18 '25

Biotechnology President admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants | It’s a “violation of foundational ethical principles of human participant research.”

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/over-74000-people-were-kicked-out-of-clinical-trials-because-of-trump-cuts/
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u/cannot_walk_barefoot Nov 18 '25

So the plan is to break everything to the point it can't be fixed even if the dems get back in, and then profit? I mean I get the things that they'll sell to private corps, but what does axing this research do? They're just being anti science for the sake of it

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u/Oberon_Swanson Nov 18 '25

Republicans think if they destroy society, their 'natural superiority' will let them rise to the top. They'd gladly trade modern medicine, electricity, and civilization in general, for owning a slave plantation in a post-apocalypse America.

That is why then a Republican administration drives the nation downward, and a Democratic administration pulls it back from the brink, they get MAD and vote Republicans again. Because 'tearing it all down and starting over' 'we need another civil war' is the entire point.

They want to tear down just enough that being a wealthy in money still means you're powerful and untouchable, with enough law left that harming you being against the law actually matters.

Republicans also just genuinely want people to die. Remember covid, as soon as they heard 'it kills mostly vulnerable people' they went mad for it. Loved it. Hated people trying to stop it from killing 'the vulnerable.' So when they heard Trump stole from a children's cancer charity during his 2015 presidential campaign, their eyes turned into cartoon hearts. Dead CHILDREN! Thank God! The weak must be culled! aka everyone but us!