‘We’re living in the Twilight Zone’: Researchers decry Trump administration assault on science
At the STAT Summit on Thursday, researchers called for a "full-throated defense" of university research again the attacks by the Trump administration.
Do scientists put themselves at risk by speaking out against the Trump administration?
“Hell yes,” said Jonathan Jackson, a national expert on increasing diversity in clinical trials who was answering the question of an audience member at the STAT Breakthrough Summit East Thursday. “I might lose the grants I have by the middle of next week” just by being on this stage, he added, an answer that silenced the crowd.
