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The Trump administration’s proposals to slash federal science funding have inspired in the media not just passion but figurative war talk. The figurative casus belli is plenty clear. What’s not clear is whether science’s defenders will place faith in plain, ordinary engagement to exploit public strategy statements from their adversary’s bugler, the Heritage Foundation.
“The war on science and the environment is underway,” announced Steven Cohen of Columbia University’s Earth Institute to open a Huffington Post op-ed. The Union of Concerned Scientists demands that Congress “reject the attacks on science.” Above an op-ed by Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, the New York Times published the headline “An assault on health and science.”
http://physicstoday.scitation.org/do...T.5.8211/full/
The Trump administration’s proposals to slash federal science funding have inspired in the media not just passion but figurative war talk. The figurative casus belli is plenty clear. What’s not clear is whether science’s defenders will place faith in plain, ordinary engagement to exploit public strategy statements from their adversary’s bugler, the Heritage Foundation.
“The war on science and the environment is underway,” announced Steven Cohen of Columbia University’s Earth Institute to open a Huffington Post op-ed. The Union of Concerned Scientists demands that Congress “reject the attacks on science.” Above an op-ed by Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, the New York Times published the headline “An assault on health and science.”
http://physicstoday.scitation.org/do...T.5.8211/full/