Thank you for your important work and contributions over several decades, and for your comments here, Dr. Coyle. I fear the president doesn’t get what he is destroying. Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be anyone knowledgeable close to him who can explain the lasting harm he is doing and what we are losing here and around the world. I doubt that any knowledgeable person in his administration or on the Hill has even tried. Do you suppose the major medical associations or their leaders will engage in a meaningful way with the Whole House and the relevant Hill committees?
Aubrey Sarvis

Not sure why my above comment was put in this post. I had responded to the man saying that our Founding Fathers were just like Trump.

This post by Joseph is terrific and to the point correct.

I wish the 77 million who put this goofball in office could read your piece and comprehend.

Also an army vet (pre-Vietnam), what else did I need to hear after his comments about John McCain and other “losers” and “suckers”?

The founders cared about the nation they were forming.

Morality, ethics, duty, and ideals of mankind seemed to weigh very heavily on these men. Pure unbridled greed through authoritarian tactics is what they were fighting.

Duh.

That is where we were up until 3 months ago when Trump assumed the Presidency and brought in Elon Musk and his 20-something DOGE acolytes to rid these institutions “of waste and fraud”. None of the DOGE workers have any expertise in basic biomedical research, clinical medicine or epidemiology. Yet they have been responsible for terminating thousands of clinicians, scientists and support staff at these institutions, disrupting fundamental research on new treatments, stopping the tracking of emerging epidemic diseases like measles and terminating clinical trials. In addition, by fiat, all employees of less than two years were terminated at these institutions as well as at Medical and graduate schools throughout the country. These are PhD students and post-doctoral fellows, who represent the next generation of scientists.

It has been quite painful to watch these institutions implode and the brilliant and dedicated professionals, who loved their work, be dispersed to the winds. Even if this stops tomorrow, the damage incurred is devastating and would require a generation or more to reverse. If bird flu moves into humans to cause another 1918 flu epidemic, we have no epidemiologists to monitor spread, or virologists to determine the lethal mutations or experts to rapidly develop effective vaccines. But we can follow our “genius” great leader’s advice and inject bleach.