This is a disaster. I'm not exaggerating. It's a disaster for US science, but it's also a disaster for world science, because these days, science is integrated and global. The US has literally closed off billions of data hosted in the US but collected by scientists all over the world. It has closed off cancer research data, other biologi…
This is a disaster. I'm not exaggerating. It's a disaster for US science, but it's also a disaster for world science, because these days, science is integrated and global. The US has literally closed off billions of data hosted in the US but collected by scientists all over the world. It has closed off cancer research data, other biological data, oceanographic and atmospheric data; and what it hasn't closed off yet is at risk. Transnational research into a whole raft of topics, from climate science to cancer, has been halted or is in doubt. That means that Europe, Canada and Asia-Pacific can't just pick up where the US leaves off: if the data disappears or becomes payable (more likely, knowing Trump), it will kill off international research, pure research and less lucrative research.
This is from the English version of the French paper Le Monde. It concentrates on France, but it's valid for the whole world.
This is a disaster. I'm not exaggerating. It's a disaster for US science, but it's also a disaster for world science, because these days, science is integrated and global. The US has literally closed off billions of data hosted in the US but collected by scientists all over the world. It has closed off cancer research data, other biological data, oceanographic and atmospheric data; and what it hasn't closed off yet is at risk. Transnational research into a whole raft of topics, from climate science to cancer, has been halted or is in doubt. That means that Europe, Canada and Asia-Pacific can't just pick up where the US leaves off: if the data disappears or becomes payable (more likely, knowing Trump), it will kill off international research, pure research and less lucrative research.
This is from the English version of the French paper Le Monde. It concentrates on France, but it's valid for the whole world.
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2025/04/15/how-trump-s-anti-science-policies-are-impacting-french-research_6740263_10.html