The Guardian view on Trump’s war on science: Europe should pick up talent fleeing the US | Editorial

The president’s cuts have defunded and alienated thousands of American scientists. Europe can benefit, if it makes the right offer Donald Trump has spent much of his second term at war with science and scientists. He is cutting staff at institutions such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by a third, and has cancelled or frozen up to 8,000 federal research grants. This hasn’t just hurt individual research programmes, it has damaged America’s credibility as a reliable partner in the ...

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