Young researchers mobilize to protest Trump administration’s science policies
Stunned by attacks on the scientific research system, early career scientists plan a D.C. demonstration and a national ‘Stand Up for Science’ event.
For the first month of the Trump administration, it appeared that there was little organized resistance to its attacks on the existing system of biomedical research.
Science activists from Trump’s first administration were burnt out and went their separate ways, drugmakers have been mum on the potential of slashing funding to universities, and both private foundations and scientific societies have capitulated to the new administration’s attacks on efforts to promote diversity in science.
