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US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu

go.nature.comTrump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhereUS President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

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Nearly every time I see a science publication complain about what's happening it refers solely to what's happening in science. There's even a separate stand up for science protest. Even your post hints that science is more special.

“Stand up”. No, you’re not. This didn’t happen suddenly. You’ve ignored it for decades and you’re still ignoring it. This is the right wing “alternative science” you’ve refused to inform your readers about, refused to call out the liars. They now have more funding than you do. 🧪 #resistrfk

No. 20 years ago is laughably insufficient when the leaders and influencers of the community all but spat on the few that stuck their heads up and called out the liars. When they have a weekly column educating us on right wing pseudoscience then they aren’t hypocrites

BTW, you first complained that Nature has "ignored the problem for decades". When I pointed that criticism was false, citing work that was published 20 years ago, you pivoted to a new criticism, implying they hadn't done anything else. Basically, you're not really interested in the actual record.