No Voice for Science in the Trump White House?
What will be the fate of science in the coming Trump administration? Certainly the president-elect has shown himself to be largely uninterested in whether his statements are based on facts, and over 2,300 scientists have already sent a joint letter to Mr. Trump, urging him to “adhere to high standards of scientific integrity and independence in responding to current and emerging public health and environmental health threats.”
But according to Ed Yong at The Atlantic, Trump’s apathy for evidence will likely extend to policy and regulation. Yong writes that Trump may seek to “thwart the very infrastructure of science-based policy making, transforming it from a process that’s merely frustrating into one that’s also futile.” We could see the rescinding of regulations that cover a huge swath of policy territory, and what the scientific experts say about it could fall on deaf ears as a solidly-Republican federal government looks instead to cut as many safeguards as it can.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/how-trump-could-wage-a-war-on-scientific-expertise/509378/
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Everybody knows that. 