US researchers look to relocate as Trump slashes funding • FRANCE 24 English

Vera Kina is trying to remain positive but the geographer has just received an email that many researchers in the US have been dreading her grant has been cut. That was shocking. It was concerning about the future because uh my uh research is almost 100% depends on National Science Foundation. In a few weeks, she was meant to head to the Arctic to study indigenous populations and how they’re adapting to global warming, a topic of research that President Donald Trump is now refusing to fund. Since his return to the White House, Trump has sought to reshape higher education in the US, which he accuses of promoting an ideology that is too progressive. Among the topics in the firing line, climate studies, research on AIDS, and the history of segregation. As a result, thousands of American researchers have lost their grants or have been laid off. Protesters have been taken to the streets to defend academic freedom. Some professors have gone even further, including this philosopher who is considering leaving the US. In a democracy, universities are there to teach the facts. They’re not there to to breed patriotism. And it’s one reason that uh I am probably leaving the United States to the Trump is also seeking to cut NASA’s budget by around 24%. The proposed budget would slash science and climate programs and prioritize Mars focused initiatives. Initiatives that have been pushed by billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk. 75% of US scientists who responded to a recent poll said they are considering leaving the US as a result of the disruption sparked by

Ever since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House, funding for climate studies, research on AIDS and the history of segregation have been cancelled, resulting in the termination of thousands of US-based researchers and scientists.
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20 comments

  2. Europe, including France, has just augmented $500 million dollars in grants to attract American scientists. Soon the USA will be the dumbest nation on Earth.

  3. Leave them to wallow in their ignorance, arrogance and braggadocio. Someone will forget where the Beast's keys are, what the combination to the football is and how to fly AF1 and on that day that's it, they're fucked. The film is called Dumbocracy. It's a prophecy coming true before your very eyes.

  4. France doesn’t have such money,France has too many regulations science involves some failures in France you will be sued billions for those mistakes there was a reason why science is died in Europe,go there at your risks

  7. Scientists are like Trump the look for a better deal abroad. They won't stay in the US just because it's supposedly great.

  8. If so called scientist can tell the difference between a man and woman they are far from the most intelligent they are ret@rds

  11. For decades now some of the best and brightest of the world flocked to the U.S. to study and work, but that is about to end as the U.S. has become hostile to visitors and science in general with the current administration. So much for maintaining global leadership in technology and innovation.

  12. If 75% of scientists leave the usa that's it..everything is over…their economy, environment and people would just die off.

  18. We are seeing a repeat of history, this time the other way around.
    German scientists, like Einstein, once fled Europe for America.
    Now American scientists flee America for Europe.

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