SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — At organized rallies all through the US and in Berkeley, San Francisco and Palo Alto on Friday, communities got here collectively to face up for science.
Tens of millions posed an vital and well timed query Friday: the place would we be with out science?
It comes at a time by which the Trump Administration goals to chop again on federal funding, together with essential medical analysis and coverings.
“Science is not just a few summary factor,” UC Berkeley prof. of Economics Tim Miguel mentioned. “It is what makes us wholesome, it is what makes us wealthy, it is what provides us know-how – it provides us our iPhone. So, if we assault it, we’re actually not going to dwell the identical type of lives we wish to dwell and I believe it is actually harmful.”
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The Trump administration is making an attempt to chop tons of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} of scientific analysis funding.
Because the finish of January, grants have been threatened and hundreds of staff have been fired – leaving hundreds of thousands in danger.
“It is not about politics,” Johns Hopkins College graduate Carol Peyser mentioned. “No one voted for this type of devastating assault on our medical system and we have now to face up.”
Among the many sought-after cuts, the Nationwide Institutes of Well being can be stripped hundreds of thousands of {dollars} for analysis into Alzheimer’s, most cancers, coronary heart illness and different sicknesses.
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It is work is being completed at Bay Space universities, like Cal and Stanford – analysis with life-saving implications.
“(With out it, it could be) very, very scary,” San Mateo County resident Kathryn Strachota mentioned. “Not only for my life, however everybody’s lives.”
“I, myself, am a younger breast most cancers survivor,” Stand Up For Science SF organizer Nicole Holliday mentioned. “The remedy that I had was developed in universities a long time in the past, analysis that was funded by the federal authorities. So, there’s no person in America whose life hasn’t been positively modified by the analysis that our universities do.”
A federal choose has quickly blocked the drastic NIH funding cuts.
However till the authorized battle ends, the battle for science locally continues.
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