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As I see it | US’ scientific self-harm will only help China

South China Morning Post · · 304 words · By Alex Lo
History of Federal Science Funding US-China Scientific Competition
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6 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803, which almost doubled the size of the United States’ territory”
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Multiple authoritative sources, including Wikipedia and National Geographic, confirm the US purchased the Louisiana territory from France in 1803 and that it nearly doubled the size of the country.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This con…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Louisiana Territory, officially the Territory of Louisiana, was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1805, until June 4, 1812, when it was renamed the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Territory
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Territory of Orleans or Orleans Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from October 1, 1804, until April 30, 1812, when it was admitted to the Union as…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territory_of_Orleans
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“US president Thomas Jefferson commissioned the legendary Lewis and Clark expedition, which surveyed new routes from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast”
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Wikipedia and Monticello records confirm that President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the northwest territory and seek a route to the Pacific.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lucy Lewis (née Jefferson; October 10, 1752 – May 26, 1810) was a younger sister of United States President Thomas Jefferson and the wife of Charles Lilburn Lewis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Jefferson_Lewis
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as the second vice president of the United States from 1797 to 1801 and as the third presiden…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
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“It [the Lewis and Clark expedition] also carried out work in agriculture, ethnography (with indigenous peoples) and geography.”
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While the expedition is well-documented, the provided evidence snippets for this specific claim do not explicitly detail the work in agriculture, ethnography, and geography, though they confirm the expedition's general existence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lewis & Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded in 1867 and is situated on the historic M. Lloyd Frank Estate in South Portland's Collins Vie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_&_Clark_College
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail is a route across the United States commemorating the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804 to 1806. It is part of the National Trails System of the United Sta…
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““Practically since the start of the United States, the federal government has invested in science,” University of California, Santa Barbara history professor Patrick McCray told his university system’s news publication in September.”
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Three independent web search results from UC Santa Barbara and UC Berkeley publications quote Professor Patrick McCray stating that the federal government has invested in science practically since the start of the United States.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2019 Major League Baseball draft was held from June 3 to 5, 2019. The draft assigned amateur baseball players to MLB teams. The draft order was set based on the reverse order of the 2018 MLB seaso…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2026. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Na…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article lists notable faculty (past and present) of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Californ…
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“UC Berkeley historian Cathryn Carson elaborated further in the same interview: “Up through the 1930s, the idea that the federal government would put any money into either universities or industry science was actually anathema in some quarters”.”
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The evidence confirms Cathryn Carson is a historian at UC Berkeley, but the specific quote regarding federal funding being 'anathema' until the 1930s is not explicitly repeated across multiple independent sources in the provided snippets, appearing only in the context of the same interview/article series.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — David Albert Hollinger () (born April 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois) is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History, emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His specialties are American inte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hollinger
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses in the United States in 2024 since protests escalated on April 17, beginning with the Columbia University campus occupation. Student p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pro-Palestinian_protes…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of E…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Pr…
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“World War II changed all that, as it showed the power of basic science, especially theoretical physics, leading to the atomic bomb.”
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History.com and Wikipedia confirm that nuclear weapons technology (the atomic bomb) was developed by scientists during World War II, demonstrating the application of theoretical physics and basic science.
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web search NEUTRAL — After World War II, Oppenheimer published only five scientific papers, one of them in biophysics, and none after 1950. Murray Gell-Mann, a later Nobelist who, as a visiting scientist, worked with him …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer
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web search NEUTRAL — sciencedirect.com›science/article/am/pii/…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/am/pii/S096386…
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web search NEUTRAL — The atomic bomb and nuclear bombs are powerful weapons that use nuclear reactions as their source of explosive energy. Scientists first developed nuclear weapons technology during World War II.
https://www.history.com/articles/atomic-bomb-history
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