Who needs biomedical researchers when we have cod liver oil, right?

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester has notified students accepted for fall admission into its PhD programs in biomedical research this fall that, sorry, it's rescinding their admission "due to uncertainties related to federal funding of biomedical research."

The Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences says the decision, which affects "several dozen" people who had gotten acceptance letters, was taken to "ensure that our current PhD students’ progress is not disrupted by the funding cuts and that we avoid matriculating students who may not have robust opportunities for dissertation research."

The rejected accepted students will be given the chance at "priority consideration without the requirement to reapply" should the school ever again be able to take in PhD students.

The National Institutes of Health is trying to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to institutions such as UMass Chan. States, including Massachusetts, and associations of universities and medical schools have sued to block the cuts, and a federal judge in Boston has ruled the government has to keep paying out the money, previously appropriated by Congress. But the regime has increasingly indicated it will just ignore judges, who have no armies.

NIH falls under the purview of Secretary of Vaccine Denial Robert F. Kennedy, who says that rather than shots, people in places with measles outbreaks, such as Texas and New Mexico, should consider alternatives such as cod liver oil and antibiotics, which people who have degrees in fields such as infectious disease, but what do they know, have suggested would not work given that measles is caused by a virus and antibiotics only work against bacteria, and that vitamin A supplements, such as cod-liver oil, are only useful in poor Third-World countries with endemic nutrition problems, which the US has not yet become.

UMass Chan says the decision does not affect students accepted to its medical or nursing programs.