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The Trump administration's Threat to Scientific Research
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Critics argue that a proposed Trump administration rule regarding federal financial assistance threatens the decentralized nature of American scientific research. Opponents fear the rule will allow political appointees to politicize grant funding and undermine scientific independence.
In The Nationalization of American Science I warned that the Trump administration’s rewriting of the seemingly mundane Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance was a tremendous threat to America’s historically successful decentralized system of science funding. Many others are now sounding the alarm.
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