Derek Lowe: The Continuing Crisis, Part VII: An Overview
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"No one has ever ripped into scientific funding like this. The Trump team has attacked it as if it were some evil imposed on us by an invading enemy, and the damage is so large and so widespread already that it’s hard to even explain."
Derek Lowe also quotes a pithy summary from Techdirt (https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-de...) of the problem:
"When the very institutions that made American innovation possible are being systematically dismantled, it’s not a “political” story anymore. It’s a story about whether the environment that enabled all the other stories we cover will continue to exist. . .This isn’t about politics — it’s about the systematic dismantling of the very infrastructure that made American innovation possible.