Did you, too, miss this item in the news? ScienceInsider reports that on Friday the current occupant fired the members of the National Science Board, the group that oversees the National Science Foundation :
Many science advocates see it as the latest step by his administration to erode — some would say destroy — the independence of the 76-year-old research agency....
Keivan Stassun, one of the dismissed board members, says the mass firing is the latest indication that the White House is ignoring the board’s authority and dictating policies at NSF, which has been without a permanent director since Sethuraman Panchanathan resigned exactly one year ago....
The top Democrat on the science committee in the U.S House of Representatives, Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, today called Trump’s decision to fire the board “the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation. It unfortunately is no surprise that a president who has attacked NSF from day one would seek to destroy the board that helps guide the foundation.”
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