Anon. Shows Us More... Xenophobic Tom-Foolery, From Tangerine 2.0's Willful Ignorance -- Again, At NIH. Ugh.

First -- as a matter of federal contracting law, once an award is granted, all the parties have a very strong reliance interest in seeing it paid. And to the extent the organizations here or abroad have expended funds to handle their contractual commitments, the courts will almost always rule. . . that the money must be paid by the US government. Yawn.

So -- I am not sure this will ultimately be effective (in the way Tangerine hopes), but it will certainly cause more. . . confusion -- and wasted money and efforts. Here's that -- in total -- and in context:

. . .Effective with the date of this notice and until the details of the new foreign collaboration award structure are released, NIH will not issue awards to domestic or foreign entities (new, renewal or non-competing continuation), that include a subaward to a foreign entity. Additionally, NIH will no longer accept prior approval requests to add a new foreign component or subaward to an ongoing project.

In all cases, NIH will allow Institutes, Centers and Offices (ICOs) to renegotiate awards, whether new, renewal or non-competing, to remove subawards to foreign entities and, where the work can be performed domestically, allow the funds to be rebudgeted for use by the prime recipient (domestic or foreign) or a domestic subrecipient.

If a project is no longer viable without the foreign subaward, NIH will work with the recipient to negotiate a bilateral termination of the project, taking into consideration any need to support patient safety and/or animal welfare. . . .

This isolationist view. . . is simply. . . stupid. Does Tangerine truly think only US based people and organizations can do excellent science? That only US based people and organizations have workable, but novel bio-science ideas?! Damn.

The ugly, malign Sith indeed do already appear, here. Just. . . damn. But thanks go out to our erstwhile Anon., just the same!

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