-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email More than eighty Nobel Prize laureates published an open letter on Thursday declaring that the scientific policies of Vice President Kamala Harris are “vastly superior” to the ones proposed by her opponent, former President Donald Trump. Representing scientists from fields including chemistry, economics, medicine and physics, the 82 scholars said Trump’s opposition to federal funding for the sciences, independent universities, immigration rights and international collaboration “would undermine future U.S.
leadership” on issues like expanding life expectancy and improving living standards . "Harris also recognizes the key role that immigrants have always played in the advancement of science," they added. The laureates negatively contrasted Trump’s stances with those taken by Harris, concluding that “this is the most consequential presidential election in a long time, perhaps ever, for the future of science and the United States.
We, the undersigned, strongly support Harris.” Related Can we trust polling data? Experts break down how this data works and why it matters This is not the first time a collective of experts praised Harris’ scientific policies as superior to Trump’s. Speaking with Salon earlier this month Mark Peterson, a Yale University historian , bluntly stated that American founding father Thomas Jefferson “would have been repulsed by Project 2025's rejection of scientific knowledge.
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