A little more on the freeze on "indirect expenses"

A little more on the freeze on "indirect expenses" in the NIH. A pretty good article in The Bulwark describes the way this anti-science directive "could upend the way universities, institutes, and research centers develop treatments and discover cures for disease."

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-latest-lo...est-cancer

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“I oppose the poorly conceived directive imposing an arbitrary cap on the indirect costs that are part of NIH grants and negotiated between the grant recipient and NIH,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said in a statement. She added that universities have been informed that the spending caps “in some cases would apply retroactively to existing grants,” and that they “would be devastating, stopping vital biomedical research and leading to the loss of jobs.”

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I had not heard that this could be retroactive to existing grants. Collins might have it wrong, of course, but if she's right, we have chaos.