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US politics
fromTruthout
20 hours ago

Trump's Attack on Weather Center Would End Lifesaving Meteorological Research

The Trump administration plans to eliminate the National Center for Atmospheric Research to curb climate science, reassign non-climate functions, and weaken climate research institutions.
US politics
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 day ago

Science in 2025A Year of Political Upheaval, Public Health Shifts, Climate Setbacks and Cosmic Revelations

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s leadership at HHS reshaped federal health agencies, disrupted science funding, and shattered the social compact between scientists and the federal government.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

Trump's shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward

The Trump administration dismantled NCAR and pursues a politicized purge of climate science likened to Lysenkoism, risking greater deaths from worsening climate impacts.
US politics
fromNature
1 week ago

Grant cuts, arrests, lay-offs: Trump made 2025 a tumultuous year for science

Trump's administration rapidly reshaped US science policy via mass firings, global-health funding cuts, arrests and travel restrictions, and leveraging federal research funding to control universities.
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 weeks ago

The Trump administration won't last forever. What happens after its gone? - LGBTQ Nation

Donald Trump isn't going to be president forever, much as he would like to declare himself immortal. At some point, his unpopularity will catch up with him. It may be in the next midterms, as Democrats are increasingly dreaming about recapturing both houses of Congress. It could be in the run-up to the 2028 election, when Trump will have to contend with his lame duck status, even if he tries to run again as an 82-year-old.
US politics
Philosophy
fromAeon
1 month ago

Science needs disagreement. What makes some disagreement useless? | Aeon Essays

Disagreement drives scientific progress, but science denialism and politicized rejection of consensus harm research and policy; criteria are needed to distinguish valuable dissent.
Public health
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

An NIH director joins MAHA, gets replaced by JD Vance's close friend

NIEHS director accepted a role promoting Make America Healthy Again; his replacement, a close friend of VP JD Vance, was installed outside standard hiring practices.
#cdc
fromWIRED
3 months ago
Public health

Fired CDC Director Says RFK Jr. Pressured Her to Blindly Approve Vaccine Changes

fromWIRED
3 months ago
Public health

Fired CDC Director Says RFK Jr. Pressured Her to Blindly Approve Vaccine Changes

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fromwww.dw.com
3 months ago

Why TV weather forecasters are receiving online hate DW 09/16/2025

One morning Chris Gloninger opened his emails to find a message from a viewer asking for his home address, saying they wanted to give him a welcome he would remember. "My heart raced and I felt paralyzed," remembers Gloninger, who at the time was presenting the weather on a TV station in Des Moines, in the midwestern US state of Iowa.
Environment
#cdc-leadership
fromFortune
3 months ago
Public health

Trump fires CDC head after one month on the job. Her lawyers say she 'refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives'

fromFortune
3 months ago
Public health

Trump fires CDC head after one month on the job. Her lawyers say she 'refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives'

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Science
fromThe Atlantic
4 months ago

Scientists Are Caught in a Political Trap

American scientific research faces increasing political interference, prompting defensive activism that risks confirming perceptions of science as a partisan enterprise.
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Trump news at a glance: How Robert F Kennedy Jr is cancelling medical science

Celine Gounder warned about a war on science, indicated by recent decisions that empower vaccine sceptics to implement mass firings and cancel important health meetings.
Public health
Cancer
fromNature
7 months ago

Data resources must be protected from political interference

NIH's data access ban reflects the politicization of science, limiting open research and collaboration.
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