#politicization-of-science

#politicization-of-science

One morning Chris Gloninger opened his emails to find a message from a viewer asking for his home address, saying they wanted to give him a welcome he would remember. "My heart raced and I felt paralyzed," remembers Gloninger, who at the time was presenting the weather on a TV station in Des Moines, in the midwestern US state of Iowa.

Celine Gounder warned about a war on science, indicated by recent decisions that empower vaccine sceptics to implement mass firings and cancel important health meetings.