2025-02-07
23 分钟Welcome to New Scientists Weekly.
We're going to start with two important messages.
First, you'll hear from historian Nancy Maclean from Duke University.
What we are experiencing now in the United States under the second Trump administration is deadly serious.
It is a war on science knowledge and expertise in general,
and it is a war that is enlisting every lever of executive power available.
As a US Historian, I can tell you that we have never seen anything akin to this before in audacity and scale,
even at the height of the Cold War red scare.
And now you're going to hear Gretchen Goldman
and she's president of the Union of Concerned scientists in Washington D.C.
we.
Are witnessing an all out assault on federal science in the United States.
Long standing legal precedent, policies, processes and norms are all being ignored.
Critical government functions are being disrupted and the scientific community is reeling.
On the show this week, we're going to get into what's at stake in the U.S.
i'm Rowan Hooper, joined in New York this week by Chelsea White.
Hey, Chelsea.
Hi.
Yes, on the show this week, we're going to talk about the chaos engulfing science here in the US and we.
Should say it's happening in the US but it affects the rest of the world.