{"id":8369,"date":"2025-04-01T17:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2025-04-03T00:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T04:40:07","slug":"top-scientists-pen-letter-calling-for-end-to-assault-on-u-s-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/top-scientists-pen-letter-calling-for-end-to-assault-on-u-s-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Top scientists pen letter calling for end to \u2018assault on U.S. science\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 2,000 doctors, researchers, and scientists <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/13gmMJOMsoNKC4U-A8rhJrzu_xhgS51PEfNMPG9Q_cmE\/preview?pli=1&#038;tab=t.0\">have signed an open letter<\/a> calling for an end to what they describe as the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cwholesale assault on U.S. science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter, written by 13 scientists from disciplines including medicine, climate science and economics, urges Americans to demand their Congress protect scientific funding and integrity.<\/p>\n<p>The signatories, all members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, wrote that the Trump administration is \u201cdestabilizing this enterprise by gutting funding for research, firing thousands of scientists, removing public access to scientific data, and pressuring researchers to alter or abandon their work on ideological grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 2,000 doctors, researchers, and scientists <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/13gmMJOMsoNKC4U-A8rhJrzu_xhgS51PEfNMPG9Q_cmE\/preview?pli=1&#038;tab=t.0\">have signed an open letter<\/a> calling for an end to what they describe as the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cwholesale assault on U.S. science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter, written by 13 scientists from disciplines including medicine, climate science and economics, urges Americans to demand their Congress protect scientific funding and integrity.<\/p>\n<p>The signatories, all members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, wrote that the Trump administration is \u201cdestabilizing this enterprise by gutting funding for research, firing thousands of scientists, removing public access to scientific data, and pressuring researchers to alter or abandon their work on ideological grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/top-scientists-pen-letter-calling-for-end-to-assault-on-u-s-science\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top scientists pen letter calling for end to \u2018assault on U.S. science\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[141,673,1301,309,8,130,1252,51,1318],"class_list":["post-8369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-activism","tag-budget-cuts","tag-kakistocracy","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-research","tag-science-denial","tag-trump-regime","tag-united-states","tag-war-on-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8375,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions\/8375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}