Qasim Rashid, Esq.Oct 13

Spoke to a scientist friend today and asked him about Trump’s anti-science campaign & his attacks on universities?

He replied, I don’t think Americans realize that even if we somehow stopped Trump now, he’s already set the USA back at least 20-30 years in scientific research. And given he still has 3 more years, we may not recover from this for half a century or more.

This Economist data is from 6 months ago. You can imagine how much worse it is now.😳

Show threadYuri BrozeOct 13
@QasimRashid What's Trump's anti-science campaign? Just not familiar with what you're referring to.
Show threadTor Iver Wilhelmsen
@ybroze @QasimRashid DOGE cancelling research projects, Trump cancelling university funds, cancelling of visas, excessive visa fees going forward etc.
Oct 13 at 9:32amWeb
Show threadYuri BrozeOct 13

@toriver @QasimRashid

Ah, I see. I'm not sure if those are strictly anti-science policies, really. The graph posted here is about web views in the sciences for non-US only; I'd be curious to see this for global views.

I'm rather in favor of reforming a lot of the funding pipelines, project selection, and visa process.