Well, it's only day four of the Trump administration and science is already actively under attack. Sure, the new president and his cabinet appointees and allies have been denying and trash-talking science for some time. But today agency leakers reported that EPA and USDA scientists had been told not to communicate with congress, the press or the public. And EPA grants and contracts were frozen; most EPA work is done through grants and contracts so this effectively both muzzles EPA scientists and prevents EPA from doing the work they are paid to do. I'd expected these and other science-based agencies to be weakened. However, ordering publically-funded scientists from communicating their work to those who foot the bill - the public - shocks me. And there are reports that this 'gag-order' is much more widespread.
Learn more from:
ProPublica; and
the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Learn more from:
ProPublica; and
the Union of Concerned Scientists.