More than 1,900 scientists and engineers have protested the Trump administration’s drastic cuts to federal scientific funding and support. In an open letter, they express concerns that the administration is destabilizing the nation’s research agency, which has been a global model due to previous investments. The letter highlights issues such as censorship, threats to research initiatives on climate change and public health, and pressures to alter scientific findings. The signatories urge that the integrity of scientific inquiry should remain untethered from political influence.
Wise investments by the US government have built up the nation's research enterprise, making it the envy of the world. Astoundingly, 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.
The quest for truth - the mission of science - requires that scientists freely explore new questions and report their findings honestly, independent of special interests. The administration's actions threaten this quest.
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