Trump's War On Science Leaves US Public Health Experts Reeling: 'There will be lasting damage'

[B.See]

And NO doubt, not only health experts reeling, but people sick, dying, and dead. HEY. All in a day's for the antiChrist.

Trump’s war on science leaves US public health experts reeling: ‘There will be lasting damage’ - The Guardian Career experts warn of decades of progress lost as administration fires staff, slashes budgets and buries data

Donald Trump... has spelled upheaval or worse for multiple spheres of US government. But for science – long a key driver of the US’s global pre-eminence – it has heralded the perfect storm.

In public health, climate science, environmental protection and nuclear safety, seasoned career specialists have been left bewildered and often jobless under a ferocious onslaught from (Trump), apparently aimed at gaining control over a sector about which he has displayed strongly held views, if frequently flawed understanding.

Now, experts warn, the US faces a loss of scientific expertise across multiple fronts that could takes decades to restore in a purge that has seen thousands of government scientists fired and billions of dollars slashed from research programs that were previously deemed vital.

Some observers compare Trump’s offensive to contemporary authoritarian regimes such as Hungary and Russia under Vladimir Putin. One even likens it to the ruthless efforts of Hitler and Stalin to bring scientists to heel in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

[AZJonnie]

1. EXCELLENT!

[Blues Heron]

2. What kind of country destroys their own health department? Insane.

[B.See]

4. Not country. Party. A party where

CRUELTY IS THE POINT.

[tanyev]

3. "a sector about which he has displayed strongly held views, if frequently flawed understanding"

I mean, you could say that about anything Donald Trump talks about.

[Solly Mack]

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