San Jose, California (KGO) – Friday, during rallies organized in the United States and Berkeley, San Francisco and Palo Alto, the communities met to defend science.
Millions of people asked an important and timely question on Friday: where would we be without science?
This comes at a time when the Trump administration aims to reduce federal funding, including critical medical research and treatments.
“Science is not only an abstract thing”, UC Berkeley Prof. of the economy, said Tim Miguel. “This is what makes us healthy, that’s what makes us rich, that’s what gives us technology – it gives us our iPhone. So, if we attack it, we are not going to live the same kind of life that we want to live and I think it’s really dangerous.”
The Trump administration is trying to reduce hundreds of millions of dollars in scientific research funding.
Since the end of January, subsidies have been threatened and thousands of employees have been dismissed – leaving millions in danger.
“It is not about politics,” said Carol Peyser, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. “No one has voted for this kind of devastating attack against our medical system and we have to get up.”
Among the searched cuts, the National Institutes of Health would be millions of dollars for research on Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, heart disease and other diseases.
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His work is done in the universities of the Bay region, such as Cal and Stanford – research with vital implications.
“(Without that, it would be) very, very scary,” said Kathryn Strachota, a resident of the County of San Mateo. “Not only for my life, but everyone’s life.”
“Myself, I am a young survivor of breast cancer,” said the organizer of Science SF, Nicole Holliday. “The treatment I had been developed in universities decades ago, research funded by the federal government. So there is no one in America whose life has not been modified positively by the research that our universities do.”
A federal judge temporarily blocked the drastic financing reductions of the NIH.
But until the end of the legal battle, the fight for science in the community continues.
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