{"id":16567,"date":"2025-03-31T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-administration-has-begun-a-war-on-science-researchers-say\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T16:49:01","slug":"trump-administration-has-begun-a-war-on-science-researchers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-administration-has-begun-a-war-on-science-researchers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/13gmMJOMsoNKC4U-A8rhJrzu_xhgS51PEfNMPG9Q_cmE\/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.b3f2t4qlidd\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\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<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The signatories called on Americans to appeal to Congress to protect scientific funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">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<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Funding from the National Institutes of Health, which supports work by more than 300,000 scientists across the country, has fallen billions of dollars short of typical levels during the early months of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The White House has also moved to cancel research in specific areas, like transgender health and climate science.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration announced last week that it was laying off 10,000 employees at the Health and Human Services Department as part of a broad reorganization that reflected the priorities of the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The department has hired a discredited vaccine skeptic to research a link, long debunked by scientists, between vaccines and autism. On Friday, the nation\u2019s top vaccine regulator resigned, citing Mr. Kennedy\u2019s \u201cmisinformation and lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In recent weeks, members of the National Academy of Medicine, a nonprofit organization that provides independent health policy advice, began discussing their concerns with members of the national academies of sciences and engineering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those conversations gave rise to the open letter, said Dr. Steven Woolf, an organizer of the letter who studies health policy at Virginia Commonwealth University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The letter was drafted by a group of 13 scientists representing fields like medicine, climate science, sociology and economics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI know what this is going to do to life expectancy in the United States, to mortality rates, to the mental health crisis we\u2019re having,\u201d Dr. Woolf said. \u201cThese changes in the research enterprise are going to translate into harms to everyday Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. Woolf cited, for example, the planned restructuring of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a small agency charged with protecting patient safety and guaranteeing Americans access to free preventive services like mammograms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe agency responsible for protecting the quality of health care in the United States just got demolished,\u201d Dr. Woolf said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The letter outlines the consequences of funding cuts, including pauses on research studies, faculty layoffs and reduced graduate student enrollments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It also accuses the administration of \u201cengaging in censorship\u201d by, among other things, \u201cblocking research on topics it finds objectionable, such as climate change, or that yields results it does not like, on topics ranging from vaccine safety to economic trends.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/science\/trump-science-nas-letter.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 1,900 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