Science and politics

The entrance to the National Science Foundation building. Employees received a sudden evacuation order. Illustration: depositphotos.com

US science agencies under attack: grants are being cut, journal subscriptions are being canceled, and NSF headquarters is being closed

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Science magazine reports on a series of decisions by the Trump administration that are harming American science – favoring artificial intelligence and quantum computing, excluding life sciences, and cutting support for groundbreaking research are sparking a wave of protest in the community.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) headquarters in Maryland with classical architecture and the symbol of American public health. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Medical research in the US faces collapse due to NIH budget freeze

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Frozen studies and clinical trials of innovative treatments are facing a halt. Research review committees have been silenced, communication with scientists and the public is muted * The scientific community demands explanations
Volcanic Institute logo. Source: Avishai Teicher / Wikimedia Commons.

"The meaning of the cuts at the Volcani Agricultural Research Institute - the cessation of activity"

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It seems that the USA is plunging into an era of isolation and isolation. The White House wants to cancel international agreements, including the Paris Agreement to deal with climate change, and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and is using presidential orders to stop or slow down the entry of refugees and the immigrants to the USA. Photo: Michael Vadon.

Science without walls

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Should scientists leave the laboratory and enter politics? Illustration: pixabay.

Should scientists enter politics?

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"Researchers must be willing not only to be attentive to the questions and concerns raised by the public and not be satisfied with trying to repel them, but also to respond to them - even if this means they have to shelve technology that they believe may change the world." Illustration: US Air Force photo by Richard Eldridge.

Scientists are trying new ways to convince a skeptical public

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The "March of Science" in San Francisco, on April 22, 2017. Photo: Matthew Roth.

The war over the facts undermines the foundations of democracy

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Polarization means tribalism. American society has become so tribal that belonging to the political left is like a statement of faith, a declaration that the phenomenon of climate change is real. And similarly, identifying with the right necessarily means denying climate change. Pictured: A sign with the inscription "Science is real", at the Women's March in Washington DC. Si, January 21, 2017. Photo: Liz Lemon.

The denial of science - what does it come from?

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Knowledge is also an essential infrastructure

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US President Donald Trump downplays the importance of scientific findings regarding global warming in the event of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. Screenshot from YOUTUBE

An alarming finding: a significant proportion of Americans think that scientific research is harmful to society. Opinion/The Middle Ages are upon us

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On the agenda - why fetuses should not be out of bounds

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Genetic engineering of humans. Image: Andrea Danti/Shutterstock

Reflections - a baby with blue eyes? / Bracha Reger

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International cooperation. Illustration: shutterstock

World science - the state of science in the world / John Sexton

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teach evolution. Image: Texas Tech University

A school in Ohio has decided to teach students creationism, climate denial and conspiracy theories

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Nuclear waste in northern Australia

The voice of the skeptic - the left's war on science / Michael Shermer

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Republican Party candidate Mitt Romney and Vice President candidate Paul Ryan at the party convention held in Tampa Florida in late August 2012. From Wiki-News. Originally from Flickr, CC license

Republican Party Platform: Curbing the Environmental Protection Agency, withdrawing from manned space flights

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The symbol of academic freedom of the Central University of Manila

Brainwashing - on freedom of speech and academic freedom / Yitzhak Farnes

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The Knesset House - the center of Israeli democracy

The voice of the skeptic - The Democracy Lab

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Lysenko Wrecks. From Wikipedia

Politics, faith and science - the (un)holy trinity

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teach evolution. Image: Texas Tech University

What are our children being taught?

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