US EditionALS Patients Don’t Have Time for Political Games
- Graduate students and faculty, led by Cornell policy club members, launched the McClintock Letters campaign around June 16 to share scientists' stories with the public.
- This effort responds to the Trump administration's significant cuts in billions of research funding and widespread government layoffs, which have fueled public distrust in science.
- Scientists like Audrey Drotos and Katherine Xue emphasize the need to connect personally with the public beyond academic settings to combat perceptions of impersonal and obscure research.
- More than 500 scientists from every state have committed to publishing opinion pieces on issues ranging from cancer to sustainable farming, with the goal of reaching an audience of approximately 8 million readers and helping to restore public trust after confidence in scientists declined from 87% in 2020 to 76% today.
- These coordinated outreach campaigns suggest an urgent need for improved communication to preserve research funding and public trust as political and cultural opposition to science grows.
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Trump’s towering economic malfeasance promises years of aftershocks: George Zadigian
As a conservative and a student of economics for over 40 years, it’s been downright painful to witness the economic malfeasance of the Trump administration. President Donald Trump has initiated trade wars with allies, reduced the pool of labor needed to sustain growth, dismantled teams of experts working on our most pressing problems, reduced funding for public and higher education that underpin future economic prosperity, cut overseers of our f…
The budget measures of the Trump administration, particularly the drastic cuts in the Medicaid program, are likely to hit its own voters hard, especially the poorest.
America Needs a ‘Woke’ Citizenry
A unifying theme of President Trump and his Republican Party’s approach to governing is to politicize every facet of citizens’ lives: medical research, higher education, science, the military, public radio and television, the judiciary system, social welfare programs, disaster relief, even weather forecasting.
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NBC WashingtonResearchers have a radical plan to thwart Trump's war on science: talking to people
Scientists searching for a cure for cancer have no trouble finding public support. But for those studying potato disease, it’s a tougher sell. The Trump administration seems to have banked on the idea that the public will see much of scientific research as wasteful or arcane. It has slashed — or proposed slashing — billions in research funding. Faced with this existential crisis, academics are seeking new ways to rally public and political suppo…
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