Carl Zimmer

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Honestly, you could hand out a Golden Goose Award every day. Pretty much anything that is some kind of technology making life better in some way, it all started in basic science.

Honestly, you could hand out a Golden Goose Award every day. Pretty much anything that is some kind of technology making life better in some way, it all started in basic science.

Honestly, you could hand out a Golden Goose Award every day. Pretty much anything that is some kind of technology making life better in some way, it all started in basic science.

My name's Carl Zimmer, and I'm a columnist at The New York Times.

My name's Carl Zimmer, and I'm a columnist at The New York Times.

My name's Carl Zimmer, and I'm a columnist at The New York Times.

So what I've been doing is trying to distill for myself, just summarizing what my fellow journalists have been digging up.

So what I've been doing is trying to distill for myself, just summarizing what my fellow journalists have been digging up.

So what I've been doing is trying to distill for myself, just summarizing what my fellow journalists have been digging up.

I don't think we know yet, honestly. There are lots of efforts to push back that are happening now. There are a number of lawsuits. There may be more lawsuits, but we don't know how judges will rule. We don't know at this point if the Trump administration is going to really adhere to what the judges say. But I can say... Government scientists are getting laid off in the tens of thousands.

I don't think we know yet, honestly. There are lots of efforts to push back that are happening now. There are a number of lawsuits. There may be more lawsuits, but we don't know how judges will rule. We don't know at this point if the Trump administration is going to really adhere to what the judges say. But I can say... Government scientists are getting laid off in the tens of thousands.

I don't think we know yet, honestly. There are lots of efforts to push back that are happening now. There are a number of lawsuits. There may be more lawsuits, but we don't know how judges will rule. We don't know at this point if the Trump administration is going to really adhere to what the judges say. But I can say... Government scientists are getting laid off in the tens of thousands.

Opportunities for young scientists are getting wiped out. Grants are being eliminated. Universities are suddenly having billions of dollars of research suddenly pulled. You know, there was a big diabetes program at Columbia. There was a program on, you know, studying chronic fatigue. These have been going on for years. They're gone.

Opportunities for young scientists are getting wiped out. Grants are being eliminated. Universities are suddenly having billions of dollars of research suddenly pulled. You know, there was a big diabetes program at Columbia. There was a program on, you know, studying chronic fatigue. These have been going on for years. They're gone.

Opportunities for young scientists are getting wiped out. Grants are being eliminated. Universities are suddenly having billions of dollars of research suddenly pulled. You know, there was a big diabetes program at Columbia. There was a program on, you know, studying chronic fatigue. These have been going on for years. They're gone.

They're gone. They're shut down. Things are happening on all fronts.

They're gone. They're shut down. Things are happening on all fronts.

They're gone. They're shut down. Things are happening on all fronts.

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.