University professor hails that science 'thrived' under Hitler in attack on Trump's NIH cuts

Robert Kuttner, a prof astatine Brandeis University, argued connected Monday that adjacent Adolf Hitler "knew to enactment German science," portion attacking President Donald Trump’s latest spending chopped target.

Shortly aft taking office, Trump issued a freeze connected outer communications astatine the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and each its sub-agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 

Although the NIH resumed its grant-making process Friday, the bureau announced that it would beryllium cutting $9 cardinal successful overhead costs nether a caller directive from the Trump administration.

Kuttner warned successful an article for the left-wing American Prospect, titled "What Trump Could Learn From Hitler connected NIH Funding," that these cuts would negatively interaction important probe astatine large universities passim the country, portion claiming, "Even Hitler did not trash German science."

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a $9 cardinal spending chopped successful effect to a caller mandate from the Trump administration. (Alamy/Getty Images)

"Hitler did question to crook subject to his ain ends, to beforehand probe connected eugenics, caller technologies for blitzkrieg war, sick aesculapian experiments, and much businesslike ways for the wide sidesplitting of Jews," Kuttner allowed, earlier adding, "Yet civilian German science, agelong a people of German pride, besides thrived" nether Hitler.

"During the Nazi era, German scientists and engineers invented the archetypal electron microscope, industrial-scale accumulation of artificial fiber, pharmaceuticals specified arsenic precocious sulfa drugs, artificial rubber, and overmuch more," helium said.

Kuttner concluded, "Trump, successful short, is adjacent much nihilist than Hitler."

The caller Trump directive mandates a 15% headdress connected "indirect costs" for NIH grants, oregon overhead for facilities and administration. The percent has historically been person to 27-28%, with immoderate implicit 60%, according to NIH, portion for backstage instauration grants it's usually betwixt 0% and 15%.

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Despite going truthful acold arsenic to invoke Hitler successful informing astir the 15% mandate, Kuttner wrote that his "informed hunch" is that it volition beryllium walked back, with assemblage leaders and authorities lawmakers readying ineligible enactment to reconstruct funding.

"Small-d antiauthoritarian politics, battered but unbroken, to the rescue," Kuttner declared.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conscionable astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., Feb. 4, 2025. (REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz)

Brandeis University told Fox News Digital it "supports and defends our faculty’s world freedom, and the close to explicit their views. Brandeis on with the Association of American Universities (AAU), the American Council of Education (ACE), and galore of our adjacent premier probe universities including the University of Chicago, John Hopkins, MIT, Brown University, Cal Tech, and Cornell, has joined a national suit challenging the caller guidelines released by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) connected February 7th."

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Democratic strategists person compared Trump to Hitler respective times passim the years, peculiarly successful the weeks starring up to the 2024 election. Former Vice President Kamala Harris herself repeatedly compared Trump to Hitler portion calling him a "fascist" who "admires dictators."

Fox News' Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.