The destruction of American institutions continues...
And I have met PHD students who are never going to create anything innovative.
So a sensible but not crippling tightening up would be ok by me, as a lot of research is of course excellent and you wouldn't want to destroy that.
I expect to be downvoted. :-)
Or maybe it's 1) hard to tell what's nonsense ex ante (thus the existence of "research"), and 2) more obviously, what's going on right now is not even allegedly an effort to make research funding more sensible.
It is all very explicitly a pressure campaign to get the higher education system to conform to the current administration’s political views.
Downvoted not because I want nonsense research, but because the guy saying "you know we could use some more open space!" while an arsonist sets fire to a neighborhood is making a profoundly low-quality contribution. Doing it with smugness is downright detestable.
:-)