Report: 10,000+ STEM Ph.D.s Exit Federal Agencies in 2025
The Spin
Anti-Trump narrative
Scientific research has driven American prosperity and saved countless lives through vaccines, disease detection and breakthrough technologies. Funding cuts are stalling critical clinical trials and threatening the next generation of innovators who built this nation's economic and military strength. The gains from decades of research investment — expanding life expectancy by nearly 20 years — will be lost without sustained support.
Pro-Trump narrative
Government-funded academic science has become a cesspit of irreproducible junk research used by bureaucrats to justify costly and harmful regulations. Elite universities churn out fraudulent studies while private industry delivers real innovation. The corrupt relationship between left-leaning academics and government policymakers wastes taxpayer money on propaganda disguised as science.
