Science now being undermined by US government on an almost weekly basis

Safeguards meant to keep US government science research objective and publicly accessible have been weakened so much that ‘a crisis point’ has been reached, with almost weekly violations, according to a bipartisan report by former government officials. A trend of interference in government research that began under previous administrations has, the report’s authors say, culminated in the efforts of the Trump administration ‘not only to politicise scientific and technical research on a range of topics, but also, at times, to undermine the value of objective facts themselves’.