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Right populism regularly contains a strong vein of skepticism towards science, or at least certain areas. However, nowhere was the populist backlash as virulent as in Donald Trump’s second term. American science and health research is affected by large -scale cuts and layoffs planned in federal agencies, and repression on what is considered to be authorized areas of the scientific survey. The impact on American public health and the economy could be deep; America’s scientific verve has supported its entrepreneurial success. Country elsewhere – Especially in Europe – Be responsibility for ensuring that American researchers can continue vital work. They also have opportunities to transform America’s self-imposed loss into their own gain.
In the last week only, thousands of employees of the US Health and Social Services department began to be laid off in a reduction in staff by Robert F Kennedy Jr, the skeptic of the vaccine which is now in charge. (The high regulator of the American vaccine earlier to leave Above the “disinformation and lies” of Kennedy.) The leaders of the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes for Health were put on administrative leave and offered a reallocation. More than 1,900 American American scientists wrote to the Trump administration to denounce “the wholesale assault against the American sciences”. The calculation of Slapdash of “reciprocal” prices on trade partners last week added only the perceived lack of respect of the White House for rational thought.
Cups to grant the financing of NIH – by far the largest world funder for biomedical research – have launched researchers uncertainty. The cuts there and elsewhere are also be led by the so-called Ministry of Elon Musk government efficiency; Some experts suspect that Musk wants to push parts of the science financed by the public in the private sector, including their own businesses.
Directives of the White House attacking climate science And diversity and inclusion policies are under research on threats to global warming or even on the vulnerability of different ethnic groups to diseases. Global progress on the treatment of climate change and the prevention of diseases and epidemics could be at risk.
Which creates a clear incentive for other countries to protect such a work in Provide paradise to academics based in the United States. But there is a wider chance for Europe. By offering unhindered academic freedoms, it could start to reverse a long transatlantic leak of the brain and to invigorate research and start -up efforts.
The obstacles are tense public finances and sensitivities on immigration. Some institutions, however, already take initiatives. The Aix-Marseille University in France has created a “Safe place for science»Diagram and the two best universities in Brussels also offer subsidies to” academics Seek to move».
The French Minister of Research Philippe Baptiste, himself a scientist, coordinated a letter signed by 11 other European ministers calling for an EU level to attract “foreign talents”. One possibility could be to expand the EU EU EU EU EU EU EUR in the world – the largest multilateral research program in the world to which South Korea, Turkey and others have obtained associated membership – in its next 2028 phase to attract displaced American scientists.
The United Kingdom, also associated with the horizon, could benefit from it. But while a shared language and its university forces should give Great Britain a golden opportunity to attract “exiled” American academics, visa costs and restrictions put it in a competitive disadvantage This Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer must urgently contact.
Donald Trump’s second term can be a temporary interlude, although destructive, after which American science can start to be rebuilt – or not. The challenge is to be ready for the two eventualities, making as much as possible to preserve all the facets of the American scientific effort, in the country or abroad.