Olivia Troye - As Biden Fights Cancer, Science Is Being Discarded
In Trump's second term, the war on science isn't a headline; it's policy.
When I heard about former President Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis, I couldn’t help but think of his decades-long fight to advance cancer research and how deeply personal that mission has always been to him. And now, watching an administration dismantle the very systems he helped build, it’s hard not to feel the weight of what’s being lost, not just in funding, but in values.
Over the past few months, the administration has gutted federal funding for crucial medical research. ALS studies. Cancer trials. Long COVID data. Neurological disease mapping. Gone. Defunded. Or left in limbo.
The question no one in Trump’s circle seems to be asking is: what happens to the data? The answer? No one really knows, and that should terrify all of us.
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