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Republicans have a post-pandemic plan for the scientific establishment

Still angry about the Covid response, GOP lawmakers want to overhaul the National Institutes of Health if they win in November.

The less information there is, the less information they need to fake-up. It's a move to make propaganda more efficient, among other insidious things.