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It takes both: Sweeping inspirational calls to move the public and generate support, AND detailed plans for how science will be done. In the 1st category we have, in addn to JFK calling for humanity to go to the moon, Nixon calling for a War on Cancer, Obama on brain science and FDR launching NIH

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16/10/26, 12:24 am4 reposts20 likes

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

But the Vannevar Bush / Kilgore struggle over NSF, and the fight over decades after that at NSF and NIH to defend scientific integrity and ensure scientific input is given weight where it matters — that matters too. The structure of govt matters (and that’s one thing this admin has gutted).

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

One reason @colesci.bsky.social and I may come from slighly different places on this is that he sees the space science program more clearly than me, and I probably have seen the biomedical world more than him.

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

And governance of agencies and advocacy is somewhat different for large projects and “let 1000 flowers bloom” science

Mark Histed

@markhisted.org

This is very cool footage, both to see FDR speak on video (!) and for its relevance to NIH www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrVZ...

youtube.comPresident Roosevelt Dedicates NIH (NARA, 1940)YouTube video by National Library of Medicine

Andrew Tan

@andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social

Talk about both sidesing 🫠🤪 SCNR at MIT Vannevar Bush is all over the place so it's hard not to be brainwashed. But everyone of course knows Kennedy's Rice University speech too 🚀