• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    Nope.

    Those numbers are funding from all sources, not just government funding. None of the private funding sources in the US have disappeared.

    Secondly, while the US spends the most, even as a percentage of GDP, it does not spend that much more on a per GDP basis that places like Germany and Korea. i.e. as American GDP and global power decline and other nations’ rise, their biomedical r&d funding will too which will make up for the loss of American government funding.

    • Auli@lemmy.ca
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      7 days ago

      Is anyone going to replace America? I don’t think so and would we want hem to? Americans consume a lot it is the driver of their economy. But dover want to replace that?

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      7 days ago

      UK, Germany have always had better success for money spent in biomedical research than the US. UK in particular does amazing things for their shit research budgets.