“Waging War on Science”: Researchers Worry About Their Jobs Under Trump 2.0

Scientists fear losing funding, avoiding terms like “climate change” in federal grant applications and other paperwork, and losing access to federal datasets.

Trump has nominated a vaccine skeptic to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services .

Some fear for their own safety, others are confident their work will be insulated from the future.

Scientists worry they may need to reframe their research to appeal to the new administration.

They also worry they’ll have less access to federal data or tools.

Good scientists may leave the field, be pushed out of the field or never get a good job.

Some researchers are worried about their colleagues' safety.

Former environmental studies professor says she left in part due to Gov. Ron DeSantis ' anti-science policies.

“It was just increasingly clear to me that I was, at best, going to have to just shut up, crawl underneath the table, and not do the work that I thought I had been brought to do.”.