Trumps War Against Science

President Donald Trump is picking a fight with science, including the EPA, that he is certain to lose.

In a new report, the Union of Concerned Scientists strives to document and detail all of the Trump administration`s anti-science actions.

Days before three scientists were scheduled to discuss the effects of climate change, the E.P.A. abruptly canceled the talks without explanation.

Nicole Alexander Fisher warns that the CDC`s reported ban on certain words not only creates difficulty for scientists to communicate, but breaks public trust in the areas they are meant to investigate and research.

Trump’s inability thus far to enact his anti-science priorities has translated into haphazard executive actions that invoke temporary outrage. But if the scientific community, and its advocates, wait until the president has the political clout to actually pass legislation it will be too late.

There are 91 entries on Columbia Law School’s “Silencing Science Tracker,” a searchable database released Friday that intends to document every instance of information censorship or restriction since President Donald Trump was elected. If this is an accurate tally, that means there’s been some kind of attempt to limit government scientific information once every week in Trump’s America.The online ...

The fear in environmental-protection agencies is palpable—but so is the pushback.

At the March for Science, people will take a stand in support of the just use of science, writes Fred Hewett, the foundation on which our understanding of the world rests.

New directive, LA Times reports, requires scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey to get approval for media interviews from U.S. Department of the Interior for most cases