In the initial months of Donald Trump's presidency, a worker from the National Institutes of Health expressed deep concerns about the atmosphere in Washington. The worker described feelings of despair regarding Trump's attacks on various institutions, particularly those promoting diversity and free speech. With a fear that the U.S. could lose its top status in biomedical research due to these assaults, the individual emphasized the importance of fostering different ideas and inclusive research to maintain progress and democracy.
We're just going down a pathway to destruction. These assaults on biomedical research and science are going to knock us off the platform of being at the top.
Just absolute despair. The assaults on the courts, the attacks on our institutions, the attacks on anything related to diversity... I see threats to democracy.
#trump-presidency #washington-politics #diversity-and-inclusion #biomedical-research #democracy-threats
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