Thursday, December 1, 2016

Worried Scientists Urge Trump to Respect Their Work

More than 2,300 American scientists, including 22 Nobel Prize winners, issued an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump and Congress Wednesday, urging them to respect science.

They are especially worried about government interference in their work and about policies that could reject scientific fact — notably climate science. 

"From disease outbreaks to climate change to national security to technology innovation, people benefit when our nation's policies are informed by science unfettered by inappropriate political or corporate influence," the researchers, who come from dozens of fields in all 50 states, wrote. 

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