Carl Zimmer

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.

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.