The Trump administration’s false promise of a scientific ‘golden age’
Opinion: The Trump administration’s proposal to shift research funding from universities to corporations may be good for short-term profits but not for groundbreaking scientific breakthroughs.
On Jan. 20, 2025, Donald Trump took the oath of office surrounded by some of the richest CEOs in the world. Over the following year and a half, the Trump administration destabilized federally funded scientific research with a multi-pronged attack that cancelled grants and programs, employed politicized censorship and attempted to dismantle key scientific institutions. These events are not unrelated. In the recent report “Science: A New Golden Age” from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Director Michael Kratsios outlines a proposal to completely reevaluate the…
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