Trump’s attack on science is shaking industry’s foundations

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By dismantling scientific enterprise, the US risks ‘taking a hammer to our miracle machine’

Donald Trump’s US government has spent the last year dismantling various aspects of the country’s scientific research and regulatory functions. In many cases, decision-making that would previously have been grounded in scientific evidence now appears to be more strongly influenced by personal beliefs and political agendas.