About this, links to 3 articles from Science below:
1. How Trump upended science
A chaotic 100-day push to remake federal research will have lasting consequences
It is almost certainly the most consequential 100
days that scientists in the United States have experienced since the
end of World War II.
Since taking his oath of office on 20 January, President Donald Trump
has unleashed an unprecedented rapid-fire campaign to remake—some would
say demolish—vast swaths of the federal government’s scientific and
public health infrastructure. His administration has erased entire
agencies that fund research; fired or pushed out thousands of federal
workers with technical backgrounds; terminated research and training
grants and contracts worth billions of dollars; and banned new
government funding for activities it finds offensive, from efforts to
diversify the scientific workforce to studies of the health needs of
LGBTQ people. The frenetic onslaught has touched nearly every field—from
archaeology to zoology, from deep-sea research to deep-space science.
And it has left researchers from postdocs to lab heads feeling
bewildered, worried—and angry. Many fear that in just 14 weeks, Trump
has irreversibly damaged a scientific enterprise that took many decades
to build, and has long made the U.S. the envy of the world.
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read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/100-days-that-shook-u-s-science
2. After 100 days of upheaval, what’s next for U.S. science?
Fights over research spending and pending court rulings loom large
With a torrent of executive orders, President Donald Trump has turned
U.S. science upside down in his first 100 days, and the onslaught isn’t
likely to end soon. Trump shows no sign of backing off his push to
shrink the federal science workforce, end programs he considers wasteful
or objectionable, and bring universities to heel by canceling their
government research grants and contracts. But factors outside the White
House could slow or drastically accelerate these efforts in the coming
months, as Congress and the courts get a chance to embrace—or push back
against—Trump’s science agenda.
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read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/after-100-days-upheaval-what-s-next-u-s-science
3. NIH under siege
After
Trump’s first 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes
are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
On a cool, sunny, mid-April day, the cheerful redbuds and other
flowering trees amid the sprawling labs on the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) main campus belied the pervasive gloom. Nearly 3 months
into President Donald Trump’s administration, NIH in-house scientists
and other workers were reeling from mass layoffs of colleagues; the
removal of leaders; and limits on travel, communication, and purchasing
that have shut the agency off from the outside world, hamstrung
experiments, and crushed the community’s spirits.
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read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-insiders-trump-dismantling-and-destroying-everything
