“The Erasing of American Science
How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?”
“For decades, the government’s relatively harmonious partnership with science has been a boon for the United States: American research brought the world a polio vaccine, the first crewed lunar landing, the internet. Since the Manhattan Project, science in America has also been explicitly recruited to the project of national security. The threat of America’s current research infrastructure buckling, though, has revealed how tenuous science’s place in the U.S. really is. “There’s no replacement at scale” for federal funding, Wrigley-Field told me.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/trump-science-data-gender-dei/681698/?gift=s5hYL9bpoE1-WDl3fVwmBA9Q1NBIe5RvPrx4pwBKdeU