Scientists are on high alert as Donald Trump returns to the White House, with implications for climate change and research.
People participate in the March for Science in Washington, Saturday, April 22, 2017. Scientists, students and research advocates rallied from the Brandenburg Gate to the Washington Monument on Earth Day, conveying a global message of scientific freedom without political interference and spending necessary to make future breakthroughs possible.
Now Trump is returning to the White House as the 47th president, his agenda potentially aided by complete Republican control of Congress and a conservative-leaning Supreme Court. In the aftermath of the election, leaders in the scientific community are girding themselves for what Trump’s return might portend.
Scientific organizations typically characterize themselves as nonpartisan, but some scientists have not hesitated to enter the political fray, including this fall, when 82 Nobel Prize winners endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris. They warned that a second Trump administration “would undermine future US leadership” on multiple fronts and slow the progress of science and technology.
Trump has endorsed Musk’s aspiration to send humans to Mars as soon as 2028. NASA is focused on the Artemis program, which aims to send astronauts back to the moon before the end of this decade, and any sudden pivot to Mars might roil the agency. For decades, courts generally deferred to the judgment of federal agency officials to administer ambiguous federal laws that regulate everything from drugs, food, the environment and more. But the ruling from the high court this summer means judges, not agency experts and scientists, will have more discretion making scientific and technical judgmentsWhat didn’t happen during the Trump years was a major gutting of scientific funding.
Jennifer Zeitzer, deputy executive director of the nonpartisan Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
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