The scientific community is feeling anxious. Sorry to interrupt your research, but the “fasten seat belt sign” has been illuminated. The President’s budget proposes large cuts to science funding: a $6 billion cut at the National Institutes of Health, a $900 million cut at the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, and deep cuts to the science of the Earth at NASA and other agencies.
How should scientists respond? How should science philanthropies respond?
Drawing upon his own experiences, our Chief Program Officer of Science, Dr. Robert Kirshner, answers these questions in a guest blog recently posted in Scientific American. He even has a suggestion for the President: check out the All-American eclipse on August 21 and “make America awed again.”
Read the blog post in full: Science in Turbulent Times: Nobody wants to act like just another special interest — but science is for the long term good of the nation, not just the scientists.
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