What’s Wrong with Billionaires Dictating the US Science Agenda?

Image credit: Martin Poole / Getty Images. Article by Melissa Finucane, Vice President of Science & Innovation. Union of Concerned Scientists: The Equation – November 25, 2024.

Billionaires funding science is not new, and it certainly isn’t all bad, but President-elect Trump’s calls to downsize government and privatize science should ring alarm bells across the nation. As a share of the US economy, private funding for research and development (R&D) is more than three times greater than federal funding for R&D, according to […]

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