France: Marseille wants to become a land of scientific asylum for US researchers censored by Trump

Censured, deprived of grants and silenced, dozens of American scientists are thinking of leaving their country after Donald Trump's decisions. In response, on March 6, the Aix-Marseille faculty launched a call "Safe place for science", inviting American researchers to continue their work in France. Marseille wants to become a land of scientific asylum.

TRIBUNE. University Theo Besson recalls, in a forum in the "World", that the glaring lack of investment and the level of wages in French research prohibit fantasizing the attractiveness that the country might have on scientists fleeing the Trump administration.

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