More than 3,000 scientists and public health specialists have been let go from the Department of Health and Human Services, per a new study from @propublica.org, based on that agency’s employee directory.
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This will limit research about the safety of things we put into our bodies and what we know about emerging respiratory viruses.
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It’s not just HHS. The Trump administration has fired an unprecedented number of federal workers across the government, many from agencies that do science for the public good
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Even when scientists remain employed, the chaotic pauses and cuts to research funding by the Trump administration are stopping clinical trials and forcing study participants and staff to go without pay.
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As the Trump administration fires, silences, and defunds scientists,, it weakens our nation’s grounding in truth. As a result, we as a country are much more vulnerable to actions and decisions founded in misinformation, disinformation, gossip, and hearsay.
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