Trump Administration attacks against science investigators
“The risks that remain silent in this defining time are much larger than the risks of speaking,” says a scientist Trump Administration about attacks on science
St. Paul, Minnesota. State Capter. Standing for the science rally. Researchers at the University of Minnesota, scientists and other assistants proposed scientific research cuts that protested against President Donald Trump.
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Chopped funding, Massive firings and political edicts What can be learn or talk Recently asked Open letter This signed the most important national researchers, all members of national science, engineering and medical academies.
“The voice of science should not be silent,” read LetterWhat was released on March 31.
So far 1,900 national members have signed an open letter. National academies were themselves Prescribed by the conference Provide scientific and technological advice, not sign in. However, a large part of thousands of researchers who chose for their technical abilities and achievements.
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“Three academies, there is extensive concern about the influence of executives and decisions, both in the U.S. science and the ability to continue to be clean air and clean water, (on). economy“He said he was one of the 13 scientists who wrote Benjamin Santer Santter, earlier Lawrence Livermore Laborator (LLNL) and letter.” All this is essential. “
In his first two months, the Trump Administration has directed U.S. research companies in many ways, including cutting cuts to finance national health institutes, Txonules in agencies like Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Health and Human Servicesand and National Science Foundation and threats to university financing on employment and diversity offices. President Donald Trump described hormone health exams “Making a transsexual mice“March to the Congress in the talk, and its administration has Distributed words Climate Science and Race online agency and federal laboratories. These organizations have entered LLNL, where Santer published pioneering studies Documenting human impact In the 1990s on the climate.
“Think about it. We can’t talk about reality,” says Santer. “We can’t really happen to what is happening in the real world that is happening in the real world.”
From Albert Einstein J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientists have had dangerous dangerous political life in public life. For example, many Nuclear scientists Weapon driver champion during the cold war. During Trump First AdministrationMembers of the National Academy of Sciences of Sciences, from the Paris Climate Agreement, released two open letters to the US retirement Spacious government attacks about science. The March Letters, however, is the first to come from the members of the three National Academy and is aimed at public and legislators under the new Trump Administration.
“Finally, the scientific community must convince the Congress that the attack of the Congress authority.” I think this letter helps that alarm sounds and is likely to embark on.
In public surveys, faith Scientists remain high Confidence in Congress or Trump. If there is split division Opinions on science, however, being Republican voters More critical of federal agencies. “Actually, the purpose of the administration’s efforts I would say is to harm the researchers, especially universities,” says David Card, Berkeley, Berkeley National Membership Academy And it was also not the signer of the March letter. “It has proven that the administration is doing the right thing for many assistants (open letter).
Trump Administration worries about their organizations and immigrant students from signing open letter to the open letter, Steven H. Woolf, the University of Medicine School of Medicine and the letter of Virginia. According to the administration’s requests, the University of Columbia puts to crack students and the Department of African and African African and African African East, in the new Supervision of March. A researcher at Harvard Medical School, which has been in a Russian visa have been arrested In a louisiana arrest center and the University of Tufts was learned from childhood development from the Turkish student Immigration officials To write a piece of opinion This was critical to US policy to Gaza.
“There are risks related to the use of your voice in the spring of 2025,” says Santer. “I strongly think that the risks that remain silent in this defining time is much larger than the risks of talking.”
“We respect our member’s point of view and commit to talk about these important issues,” he wrote in a statement in a statement in a statement American scientific. The academies are committed to “non-scientific advice in partis”, the affirmation added.
Beyond the open letters, scientists need to reach the Congress in the person and to encourage trumps through their scientific societies, Jon Miller from the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan Institute. Patient defense teams also need to listen to scientists to encourage lawmakers, he says. “Signing campaign contributions and guarantees are much more efficient than requests,” Miller added.
*Editor’s note (25/04/25): This sentence was edited to better clarify Benjamin Sant’s comments.
