By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


What does fighting antisemitism have to do with tuberculosis research?

Answer: nothing. But the Trump administration’s antisemitism task force , via the NIH, just froze funding for a top Harvard scientist’s multistate research into tuberculosis, as the Globe reports. … Anyone who seriously defends this and other cuts to medical research in the name of fighting antisemitism has a moral screw loose. 

Update — The WSJ has a big story on the administration’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism , whose real job, as the Journal notes, it to root out leftist tendencies on campuses.

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