{"id":25051,"date":"2025-03-31T15:11:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25051"},"modified":"2025-03-31T15:28:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:28:47","slug":"trump-administration-has-begun-a-war-on-science-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25051","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly 2,000 scientists urged that Congress restore funding to federal agencies decimated by recent cuts.<\/p>\n

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Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter<\/a> on Monday of conducting a \u201cwholesale assault on U.S. science\u201d that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans.<\/p>\n

The letter\u2019s signatories, all of them elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, warned of the damage being done by layoffs at health and science agencies and cuts and delays to funding that has historically supported research inside the government and across American universities.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor over 80 years, wise investments by the U.S. government have built up the nation\u2019s research enterprise, making it the envy of the world,\u201d the letter said. \u201cAstoundingly, the Trump administration is destabilizing this enterprise by gutting funding for research, firing thousands of scientists, removing public access to scientific data and pressuring researchers to alter or abandon their work on ideological grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Researchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled.<\/p>\n

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The letter said that many universities and research institutions had so far \u201ckept silent to avoid antagonizing the administration and jeopardizing their funding.\u201d But, it said, \u201cthe nation\u2019s scientific enterprise is being decimated.\u201d<\/p>\n

The signatories called on Americans to appeal to Congress to protect scientific funding.<\/p>\n

With Elon Musk\u2019s efforts to cut spending and President Trump\u2019s crackdown on institutions he sees as ideological enemies, the administration has sought to dismantle parts of the federal government\u2019s scientific funding apparatus.<\/p>\n

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Nearly 2,000 scientists urged that Congress restore funding to federal agencies decimated by recent cuts.Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a \u201cwholesale assault on U.S. science\u201d that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans.The letter\u2019s signatories, all of them elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, warned of the damage being done by layoffs at health and science agencies and cuts and delays to funding that has historically supported research inside the government and across American universities.\u201cFor over 80 years, wise investments by the U.S. government have built up the nation\u2019s research enterprise, making it the envy of the world,\u201d the letter said. \u201cAstoundingly, the Trump administration is destabilizing this enterprise by gutting funding for research, firing thousands of scientists, removing public access to scientific data and pressuring researchers to alter or abandon their work on ideological grounds.\u201dRead the LetterResearchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled.Read Document 75 pagesThe letter said that many universities and research institutions had so far \u201ckept silent to avoid antagonizing the administration and jeopardizing their funding.\u201d But, it said, \u201cthe nation\u2019s scientific enterprise is being decimated.\u201dThe signatories called on Americans to appeal to Congress to protect scientific funding.With Elon Musk\u2019s efforts to cut spending and President Trump\u2019s crackdown on institutions he sees as ideological enemies, the administration has sought to dismantle parts of the federal government\u2019s scientific funding apparatus.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25053,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25054,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25051\/revisions\/25054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}