The administration of US President Donald Trump is raising deep concerns in academia and science, as it continues to implement policies that are said to deeply interfere with research and highereducation .
From billions of dollars in funding cuts to threats to dismantle federal science agencies, this wave of change is putting America's global scientific leadership at risk.
In his first 100 days in office, President Trump has taken many "shocking" actions, including mass firings of personnel in federal research agencies, banning the use of terms related to gender and climate change, and tightening control over universities through financial threats.
“Never in my 40-plus years of career have I seen anything like this in the United States,” said Stanford University professor Paul Edwards.
More than 1,900 members of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have issued a joint warning, calling the funding controls “a full-scale assault on the core mission of science: the search for truth.”
They called on the government to end these harmful actions and mobilize the public to protect the national knowledge base.
According to Ms. Jennifer Jones, Director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, the current campaign is more systematic and larger in scale than in Mr. Trump's first term.
She said the moves were a clear reflection of “Project 2025,” a policy blueprint that calls for reforming or dismantling agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which she said “promotes climate alarm.”
Political interference is also undermining long-standing academic institutions. Harvard University has been targeted with funding freezes, threats to strip its tax-exempt status and restrictions on international student enrollment.
These measures are justified by the government as aimed at combating “wokeism” and anti-Semitism, but to many experts, this is an act of politicizing education.
Fears of a “brain drain” are also becoming a reality as many researchers begin to leave the US, while countries like France have prepared laws to welcome “scientific refugees.”
Professor Daniel Sandweiss of the University of Maine warned that these moves raise the risk of losing an entire generation of young talent in the future./.
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