#Trump Administration Has Begun a War on #Science , Researchers Say

The Stand Up for Science rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington this month. The Trump administration has frozen funding for scientific research and fired thousands of employees at federal agencies.
#waronscience #standupforscience

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/science/trump-science-nas-letter.html

At least we can still use "bloodbath" in the metaphorical sense for the NIH purge. #WarOnScience comes for NICHD's Diana Bianchi (where most #demography funding lives) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘One of the darkest days’: NIH...

NASEM sociologists signing: Richard Alba Lawrence Bobo Dalton Conley Karen Cook Nicholas Christakis Kathleen M Harris Mike Hout Arne Kalleberg Douglas Massey Afaf Meleis Alondra Nelson Stephen Raudenbush Dorothy Roberts Florecia Torche Mary Waters Yu Xie docs.google.com/document/d/1... #WarOnScience

The #WarOnScience is a war on knowledge -- teaching and learning, sharing information, shared reality. This. Is. Not. About. The. Budget.

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In addition to political persecution, file this under #WarOnScience: It's the willful destruction of the USA's global leadership in science and research training of all kinds

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Yale professors Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, and Jason Stanley emigrate to Canada.
Snyder authored On Tyranny and The Road to Unfreedom, and is an outspoken critic of the Trump regime.

Shore: ““I'm both a Jew and a historian of the 1930s. The lesson of 1933 is that it's better to get out sooner rather than later.”
https://www.stratfordtoday.ca/local-news/university-toronto-hires-three-prominent-yale-professors-worried-about-trump-10436093
#Trump #waronscience

#WarOnScience

Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH...

The tRump administration's #WarOnScience is non-stop! Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH starts cutting COVID-19 research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Saying ‘pandemic is over,’ NIH...

TLDR: MAGA will bring more cancer, asthma, heart disease, low-birth-weight babies, Parkinson’s, liver and kidney damage, greenhouse gases and fetal cardiac defects; and fewer breakthroughs in cancer research, a smaller generation of new scientists and more children with diminished IQs. #WarOnScience

Opinion | Trump’s Environmenta...

The #WarOnScience harms the most vulnerable first

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"But even if the money comes back, things won’t return to the way they were before. Now that #Trump has set the precedent of pulling scientific funding as a punishment for unrelated offenses, #scientificresearch will always be at risk of being caught in the middle. ... If obeying the dictates of one administration places scientists at risk of being persecuted by the next, what are they to do?"

#dei
#waronscience

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/dei-columbia-funding-cuts/682091/?gift=36MUroklPHjSVbIeXUwSvVjCkerRgleYwblkOuGbZiA

#WarOnScience United States: a French researcher repressed for expressing "a personal opinion on the policy pursued by the Trump administration"

Etats-Unis : un chercheur fran...

#USpol #science #clinicalresearch #medicalresearch

The #WarOnScience will most likely lead to a drastic reduction in investigational sites for clinical trials in the US

across all therapeutic areas
irrespective of funding (public/commercial)
irrespective of the sponsor's location (e.g. EU, CN).

This will not only lead to longer recruitment + therefore development times almost *everywhere* but less potential treatment options for Americans without proper HC access.

@AkaSci
It is a #WarOnScience, and it goes beyond that — it is part of an absolute power grab where reality is dictated, not observed. If you disagree or object you will be dispensable and treated accordingly. Frightening.

Preparing slides for upcoming talks. Mindful of the old advice, "If you're not sure what to say, say it louder." #WarOnScience

"It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine interest and commitment. … Therefore, the award is terminated." #waronscience

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#USpol #Science #WarOnScience

"Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities"

by @chrischirp is unpleasant to read but provides a superb overview of their war on science.

https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-purge-defund-how-trump-following