Science, Funding, and Economic Prosperity

Science, Funding, and Economic Prosperity

With rare exceptions, most of the articles about the Trump administration’s science-funding policies have discussed them in catastrophic terms. A professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has called cuts to research funding the “apocalypse of American science.” Critics believe this will sound the death knell of the American economy and our scientific leadership. Despite this widespread condemnation, the administration shows no sig…