The Guardian view on Trump’s warfare on science: Europe ought to decide up expertise fleeing the US | Editorial

Donald Trump has spent a lot of his second time period at warfare with science and scientists. He’s chopping employees at establishments such because the Environmental Safety Company (EPA) by a 3rd, and has cancelled or frozen as much as 8,000 federal analysis grants. This hasn’t simply harm particular person analysis programmes, it has broken America’s credibility as a dependable associate within the scientific neighborhood. It isn’t shocking that many researchers – one ballot final 12 months by the journal Nature gave the variety of 75% – say they’re contemplating leaving the US solely.