"Science Ranks Grow Thin In Trump Administration"

"KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dozens of government computers sit in a nondescript building here, able to connect to a data model that could help farmers manage the impact of a changing climate on their crops.

But no one in this federal agency would know how to access the model, or, if they did, what to do with the data.

That’s because the ambitious federal researcher who created it in Washington quit rather than move when the Agriculture Department relocated his agency to an office park here last fall.

He is one of hundreds of scientists across the federal government who have been forced out, sidelined or muted since President Trump took office."

Annie Gowen, Juliet Eilperin, Ben Guarino, and Andrew Ba Tran report for the Washington Post January 23, 2020.

 

Source: Washington Post, 01/24/2020