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'Expertise is for chumps': New 'golden ticket' Trump 'grift' exposed by fuming analyst
Trump’s Science Policy Is Just Subsidy With Better BrandingPublic Money, Private AppetiteA new White House report from Michael Kratsios, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, is being read as a blueprint for “reforming” science. The reported substance is simpler: cut universities down, loosen rules on Big Tech, and redirect taxpayer-backed research into a system that flatters industry and rewards insiders.Who Has the PowerThe power here sits where it always sits in this administration: in the White House, with Trump at the top and the agencies beneath him carrying out…
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