The article highlights the Trump administration's aggressive measures against scientific research, particularly targeting topics such as climate change and social equality. Funding for agencies like the National Science Foundation and the NIH is severely reduced, impacting academic freedom and vital research. The authors emphasize the need for scientific leaders to advocate for their colleagues and raise public awareness about these threats. Global scientific organizations bear a responsibility to respond collectively, as the repercussions of this anti-science stance could have wide-reaching effects on public health, the economy, and innovation.
The administration of US President Donald Trump is pursuing a destructive agenda against science. The White House seems to be intent on telling funding agencies what they can fund, universities who they can hire, and researchers what they can study.
In the next fiscal year, the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency are in line to lose more than half of their budgets, and the National Institutes of Health 40% of its funding.
Earlier this year, we urged scientific leaders to take a stand, to support at-risk colleagues and to do more to make citizens aware of the consequences of such recklessness.
Globally influential scientific organizations have a particular responsibility to speak out because, as we wrote at the time, "an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere."
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