On the Substack blog Science Fight Club, Collette Delawalla, founder and director of Stand Up for Science*, describes the #perilous state of #science in the USA.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sciencefightclub/p/an-inflection-point

* https://www.standupforscience.net/

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