US spending reductions?

Ironically I think this is likely to be *better* for US research, because over time you get cliques of scientists who all keep writing the same papers over and over citing each other and soaking up all of the research money....

When you dynamite all of the funding, those cliques disburse or go elsewhere, and so then when you bring funding back, it goes to new researchers who are actually quite a bit more likely to discover something useful...