Commentary: Here are all the ways that Trump has tried to kill U.S. science research

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Set us as preferred A few days ago, the Trump administration issued a 123-page report heralding a “new golden age” for U.S.science.

The key, said the report, published in the name of Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, was to ensure that the approval of federal research grants “rests purely on merit, not the political fashions of the day.”There isn’t much to say about this goal, other than that the White House has some nerve.For years, dating back to the first Trump administration, I have been documenting all the steps Trump and his minions have taken to undermine American science.They admitted what was true.

It’s not like the Trump administration was hiding what it was doing.— UC Berkeley law dean Erwin ChemerinskyThanks to a group of University of California researchers who have gone to court to fight Trump’s cancellation of their research grants, we now have the most explicit confessions by six federal agencies about how slipshod and partisan their actions have been.They’re the departments of Defense, Energy and Transportation, and the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Those stipulations were filed in federal court in San Francisco on July 15.Taken together, the government admitted that it used nonscie...