AAAS leadership speaks out against Trump administration’s attacks on science
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Rebecca Trager2025-02-14T14:30:00
President of world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society warns that next month could be most important in history of US science
The leadership of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest multidisciplinary science organisation, issued dire warnings to scientists and researchers during a plenary session that kicked off its annual conference in Boston on 13 February.
‘The unprecedented developments of these last few weeks have left many of us in the science and engineering community uncertain, anxious and fearful,’ stated AAAS board chair Joe Francisco, who served as president of the American Chemical Society in 2010. ‘Being together, as we are now, is one of the greatest antidotes to those feelings, but together this is not enough,’ he told the packed exhibition hall.