Clear asymmetry
An analysis of hundreds of thousands of political reports and documents shows the importance of research in the two US parties in political everyday life
Dark clouds above the Capitol in Washington, DC under the government of US President Donald Trump, science has little status. However, research results have always been of less importance among Republicans, as a current study shows.
In a time of increasing social and political polarization, science in the United States has also been difficult to fire. Under President Donald Trump, the government strokes the funding of countless research institutions or wants to bring leading universities and scientific institutions under its control. Sciences warn of the dangers of these measures, some are already fled abroad.
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