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For example, the Trump administration has put forward a budget in which NASA's science budget would be cut in half, which experts have described as kind of an extinction level event for science at NASA. This is all the stuff that you read about in the newspapers, like, you know, what did we discover on Mars? Or there is a space telescope called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It is built.
For example, the Trump administration has put forward a budget in which NASA's science budget would be cut in half, which experts have described as kind of an extinction level event for science at NASA. This is all the stuff that you read about in the newspapers, like, you know, what did we discover on Mars? Or there is a space telescope called the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It is built.
If it gets into space, it will be able to give us an incredible picture on the whole universe, including the evolution of galaxies. An even better look at planets around other solar systems might help us find life on other solar systems. In the proposed budget, that telescope is dead. It gets no funding.
If it gets into space, it will be able to give us an incredible picture on the whole universe, including the evolution of galaxies. An even better look at planets around other solar systems might help us find life on other solar systems. In the proposed budget, that telescope is dead. It gets no funding.
If it gets into space, it will be able to give us an incredible picture on the whole universe, including the evolution of galaxies. An even better look at planets around other solar systems might help us find life on other solar systems. In the proposed budget, that telescope is dead. It gets no funding.
That's absurd. Then the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's climate science program, that is being proposed to be shut down. Just shut down. Fully, fully. Shut down. The EPA. At the EPA, they have research scientists who do science to understand the threats to human health. There's movements to have all 1,000 of them laid off.
That's absurd. Then the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's climate science program, that is being proposed to be shut down. Just shut down. Fully, fully. Shut down. The EPA. At the EPA, they have research scientists who do science to understand the threats to human health. There's movements to have all 1,000 of them laid off.
That's absurd. Then the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's climate science program, that is being proposed to be shut down. Just shut down. Fully, fully. Shut down. The EPA. At the EPA, they have research scientists who do science to understand the threats to human health. There's movements to have all 1,000 of them laid off.
The EPA will not have a research science staff if this follows through. You know, the Centers for Disease Control, for example. Center for Disease Control used to have an office full of experts on lead poisoning. And in fact, Milwaukee has just had a lead poisoning emergency and they would like to have CDC send their experts. There are no lead poisoning experts at the CDC.
The EPA will not have a research science staff if this follows through. You know, the Centers for Disease Control, for example. Center for Disease Control used to have an office full of experts on lead poisoning. And in fact, Milwaukee has just had a lead poisoning emergency and they would like to have CDC send their experts. There are no lead poisoning experts at the CDC.
The EPA will not have a research science staff if this follows through. You know, the Centers for Disease Control, for example. Center for Disease Control used to have an office full of experts on lead poisoning. And in fact, Milwaukee has just had a lead poisoning emergency and they would like to have CDC send their experts. There are no lead poisoning experts at the CDC.
Yeah, NSF, their proposal is to cut it in half. Half. And Department of Health and Human Services. That's the department that houses the National Institutes of Health. 10,000 people have been fired. That has included lots of people involved in doing basic research on biomedicine.
Yeah, NSF, their proposal is to cut it in half. Half. And Department of Health and Human Services. That's the department that houses the National Institutes of Health. 10,000 people have been fired. That has included lots of people involved in doing basic research on biomedicine.
Yeah, NSF, their proposal is to cut it in half. Half. And Department of Health and Human Services. That's the department that houses the National Institutes of Health. 10,000 people have been fired. That has included lots of people involved in doing basic research on biomedicine.
Trying to make a coronavirus vaccine that is going to be able to give us some protection against other strains of COVID or maybe some entirely new coronavirus.
Trying to make a coronavirus vaccine that is going to be able to give us some protection against other strains of COVID or maybe some entirely new coronavirus.
Trying to make a coronavirus vaccine that is going to be able to give us some protection against other strains of COVID or maybe some entirely new coronavirus.