Rag Tag Team of Biologists Who Lost Funding Because of Trump Turned a Motel Room into Makeshift Lab and Made a Groundbreaking Discovery
5th October 2026
Brought together by Trump’s funding cuts, Julia Van Etten and her rag tag team of biologists pursued their research in a motel room.
So I guess government funding is not the absolute necessity for ‘science’ that its beneficiaries say it is.
And it was out of this makeshift lab that they made an incredible discovery: two new microscopic organisms that may be crucial to tracing the origins of life, the New York Times reports.
So I guess government funding is not the absolute necessity for ‘science discoveries’ that its beneficiaries say it is.
It’s not the only example of scientists resorting to unorthodox measures to fund their research. A team of researchers studying marmots resorted to creating an OnlyFans account dedicated to marmot content after Trump axed their federal research grants.
So I guess government funding is not the absolute necessity for ‘anything good in the universe’ that its beneficiaries say it is.
Good to know.