Yes, Nature is completely right that #Trump is assaulting science and that he is swinging a wrecking ball at all publicly funded science:
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
After all, this is what he and his ilk have been pushing for all along, since 2016: to abolish publicly funded science. Just one example from back then:
“Do we really need government-funded research at all?”
vox.com/science-and-health/201…
There are plenty more. #Science is the antithesis to #fascism, so one of them must go.
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nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
After all, this is what he and his ilk have been pushing for all along, since 2016: to abolish publicly funded science. Just one example from back then:
“Do we really need government-funded research at all?”
vox.com/science-and-health/201…
There are plenty more. #Science is the antithesis to #fascism, so one of them must go.
1/8
#USpol
Trump’s budget director pick: “Do we really need government-funded research at all”
Mick Mulvaney suggested Zika science is uncertain, so we shouldn’t bother to fund it.Julia Belluz (Vox)