This won't kill this technology, it just makes pharma a sector dominated by European, Chinese and Indian corporations

April 11, 2026 - 10:59 UTC

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The text is so US centric.
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Did he even lie? The admin just accepted his viewpoints from the beginning.
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This administration is a cancer to American hegemony
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Sheepeople are so uneducated today. Taking one look at rfk jr. should have been a clue that he knows nothing about healthy behavior. The skin tone is a dead giveaway. Whether it is a tanning booth tint or actual tanning of his skin it’s so unhealthy for the skin. Thats just a start.
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Don’t rule out Canada. Its citizenry is itching to resurrect the legacy of Banting (insulin).
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True, but also means far less will be spent on this vital research for a long time to come.
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Far less in the US ...
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Chinese maybe. But everyone in Europe still refuses to fund research, so there's no way we'll ever get ahead even against a half-collapsed US system with the current arrangements.
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this competitive attitude is part of the problem IMO

they can't use science to 'win' so they've given up on it
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Your polite reminder that the Covid mRNA vaccine came from Germany, not the USA.
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Exactly. It works. We just gave away dominance
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Targeted mRNA vaccines are the best bet for curing cancers. They are a science miracle and we are turning our backs on them.
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Funding for a lot of university level research dried up from the doge cuts. The US lost tens of thousands of PhDs to EU, China, Australia, Canada. They cut student loan availability after moving it to the Dept of Treasury from Dept of Education. There will be less graduating PhDs in future also.
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You reap what you sow. Americans voted for a weird amalgame of crooks, rapists, perverts, lunatics, traitors, nihilists, fascists and religious fanatics. Now they have a policy that promotes diseases, ignorance, war, violence, rape, corruption, pollution and religious lunacy.
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Massive W for Cambridge
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Is that even a bad thing at this point?

It's not like Americans themselves benefit from the American Pharma-industry.

At all.
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America last.
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What a creepy POS
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China, India, and Japan all have Pharma industries that are more modern and more advanced than most U.S. based pharmaceutical companies who continue to run along on past glories and outdated physical plants.😏
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I suspect that in the short term that sector will need to adapt to losing the de facto subsidy of federal funding of basic research. In the longer term I expect it’s a question of whether there’s a meaningful restoration of funding & researchers will be willing to risk recommitting to working here
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Exactly. Lysenko-ism didn't end science. It just ended the science of those who upheld it.
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Works for me…🤷🏻
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And weaken the US’s ability to protect its own people when the next pandemic comes along. I don’t know why democrats aren’t daily reminding voters that trump dismantled Obama’s global pandemic response team. That had an office in WUHAN! 🤬🤬🤬
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Long past time to get rid of this crazy !!!
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It won’t kill it, but lack of access to the US market will have an impact on what companies prioritise.
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Which might be a good thing
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The world-other-than-the-US is a big place. The EU (developed economies) has a bigger population than the US. Korea, Japan also. Then there are large developing nations like Indonesia and India. The US market isn't much of a loss in comparison
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Decently the worst Trump cabinet member and that’s a strong field
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And it will take longer for Americans to gain access to it.
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Most US pharma corporations have a huge presence in the UK and Japan, so they operate substantially outside US government jurisdictions anyway.
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You can see similar strategic hedging in how Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Anthropic are rapidly expanding infrastructure and operations in the EU/UK and India
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@aphclarkson.bsky.social The UK? Many have a bigger presence in, and some shifted new product development and all EU licensing to Ireland, from which US imports far more than from the UK.
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imo covid probably strengthened this trend by also getting them more involved in continental Europe (even if some of the longer term investments in Germany had all the bureaucratic clusterfucks that are customary)
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This isn’t at all related to how pharmaceutical companies remain competitive or bring new things through the development process. It works against them much of the time.
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Same with solar and EVs
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