Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump's war on science accelerates

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump's war on science accelerates

Matthew Yglesias /Slow Boring: Trump's war on science A multi-directional assault on the foundations of American research Thanks to the involvement of Elon Musk and the support of several ...

If U.S. scientists start looking for new options abroad, Austria also wants to offer itself. The U.S. president saves massively on science and intimidates researchers.

Trump's war on science

Thanks to the involvement of Elon Musk and the support of several other prominent technology industry figures, the second Trump administration has a techno-futurist strand that was completely missing from the nostalgia-soaked first. We’re hearing about robots, advanced rockets, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies of tomorrow. But underlying this forward-looking rhetorical glow is a multi-pronged attack on American scientific …