Posted on 04/02/2025 7:12:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Nearly 2,000 scientists, engineers and researchers penned an open letter this week to President Donald Trump's administration, calling for a stop to its "assault" on science.
The letter was signed by elected members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a congressional chartered organization that provides independent analysis and helps inform public policy decisions.
"We are speaking out as individuals. We see real danger in this moment," the letter said, in part. "We hold diverse political beliefs, but we are united as researchers in wanting to protect independent scientific inquiry. We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation's scientific enterprise is being decimated."
"We call on the administration to cease its wholesale assault on U.S. science, and we urge the public to join this call," the letter continued.
The group called out the Trump administration for actions including the ending funding for research, firing scientists and removing public access to data.
"If our country's research enterprise is dismantled, we will lose our scientific edge," the letter goes on. "Other countries will lead the development of novel disease treatments, clean energy sources, and the new technologies of the future. Their populations will be healthier, and their economies will surpass us in business, defense, intelligence gathering, and monitoring our planet's health. The damage to our nation's scientific enterprise could take decades to reverse."
The letter comes as layoffs begin at HHS, including at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration.
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ABC/Disney = stop reading
Follow the science—to the unemployment line!
They thought they had created a new priest-hood.
Oops.
I wonder if they got those fifty-one intelligence community experts to . . .
Assault on the grift is the only thing happening
“National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a congressional chartered organization that provides independent analysis and helps inform public policy decisions.”
Boondoggle
This is funny. The fake scientists are complaining because they’ve been found out and cancelled.
It’s like the rats complaining because DOGE has cancelled all their slush funds.
I wonder if these leftist media outlet realize they have a credibility problem with the average American citizen?
“Over 1,900 researchers describe ‘assault’ on science by White House: ‘We see real danger’”
not possible: science already existed the FedGov when Anthony “i AM science” Fauci retired, while clutching his Presidential pardon retirement present ...
“Science” like defining what a woman is? Or Global Warming BS?
Has this been fact checked? How much were these liberal bozos being paid to side with the ahos who say there are more than two genders. Sounds like “Bozo’s 2000” who signed this letter are the maggots who know nothing about science. Geez.
People who hate the military love to cite Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell speech warning of a “military industrial complex”.
What they always fail to cite is the next thing he warned of. Ike nailed it. Time to get rid of the “scientific-technological elite”.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
Meanwhile the population sees assault on people by scientists and their inventions.
Luddites poised for a comeback
Blah, blah, blah
“Real” danger to their pocketbooks.
As Elon has said, the fraudsters complain the loudest.
I wonder if, in their greatly extended education, were they taught to read a spreadsheet?
It’s not as if we weren’t warned the day would come that our debt would become unmanageable.
Ross Perot told us so a third of a century ago.
#learn2code
Grant recipients most affected.
Oh, good - another ‘nnnn experts warn’ essay... 🙄🤮
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