Perspective | Trump creates ‘hostile environment’ for federal government scientists. One speaks out about reprisals

The Washington Post: Is the Trump administration trying to “delegitimize science”?

Are administration officials “creating a hostile environment for federal agency scientists?”

Yes.

That’s the upshot of a Union of Concerned Scientists’ report that was released, coincidentally, the day after an Interior Department scientist published a Washington Post article about Trump administration retaliation against him.

The report from the Union’s Center for Science and Democracy acknowledges that “political interference in science is not new,” but under President Trump “these threats to the federal scientific enterprise have escalated markedly.”

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