‘Complete shock and dismay’: scientists unite against Trump’s $1tn grant attack

Harvard social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger was studying how discrimination affects population health when she learned her nearly one million dollar National Institutes of Health grant had been canceled. The Guardian reports this as one example of dismay spreading across the scientific community over a Trump administration proposal to remake the nation's grant-making system. According to the reporting, an Office of Management and Budget proposal would upend the entire process and put control over vast sums — reportedly a trillion dollars — into the hands of political appointees rather than peer review.

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