SCIENCE

Science Under Siege

Michael Mann & Peter Hotez

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s controversial health supremo, recently cancelled $US500 million dollars ($765 million) of grants for research into mRNA vaccines. In any alternate universe, such a hare-brained decision by the fellow in charge of American medical research would be inconceivable.

But not in our universe. In Science Under Siege , co-authors Michael Mann and Peter Hotez, leading researchers and advocates in their respective fields of environmental science and immunology, warn that science itself, as a credible and trusted method of establishing truth, is in crisis.

The editorial in the August 15 edition of science journal Nature in response to Kennedy’s decision, was outraged. “Shock and di

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