So one particular example of this is… grants studying how flies breed.

Yep, face value, no investigation, sounds kinda silly.

But, what its actually for, is for learning how to introduce sterile bugs into populations of them that are actively spreading some kind of plague.

… Like the screwworm outbreak that is currently ravaging the southern US and central America.

Yep. Yep, we had people and stuff and systems in place to be able to handle that.

But then Trump and Elon’s DOGE boys just… wiped all of that out. And our reward from that, is a plague.