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Published on: August 4, 2023
Institutionalizing politicized science
Donald Moynihan1, Pamela Herd2
1Donald Moynihan is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
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The opening months of the Trump administration represent a historic disruption to America's scientific agencies. Staff have been fired or reassigned in the name of efficiency, resulting in chaos. Grants have been canceled mid-project for featuring the wrong words. "Pauses" and "reviews" are designed to block spending, in the hope that Congress will make the current impoundment of funds a baseline for permanent disinvestment. While the scientific community waits to see what the new normal will be, the Trump administration has a plan to institutionalize a much more politicized structure of control over government broadly, including both public scientific investments and the use of scientific knowledge in policy actions.
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