Americans Disapprove of Science, Medicine Attacks
Americans disapprove of the Trump administration’s policies targeting science and medicine by a margin of more than 2-to-1, according to a survey by Rutgers and other universities.
Nationwide data collected by the Civic Health and Institutions Project, a collaboration between Rutgers, Harvard, Northeastern University, and the University of Rochester, found that cuts to science- and health-related budgets and workforces, agency reorganizations and changes in research priorities are sharply unpopular.
“Across the board, our research showed that government actions to defund scientific work and conduct massive layoffs in science and health agencies are not being met with strong public support,” said Katherine Ognyanova, an associate professor of communication at the Rutgers School of Communication and Information and the survey’s principal investigator.
Between April 10 and June 10, the consortium collected 31,062 responses from individuals ages 18 and older in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Surveys were conducted via an online, nonprobability sample, with state-level representative quotas for race, ethnicity, age and gender. The project’s survey methodology was recently recognized with the Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award
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