Friday essay: Trump and Kennedy are destroying global science. Even Einstein questioned facts – but there’s a method to it
- Written by Elizabeth Finkel, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
Eight months into Donald Trump’s second presidency of the United States, truth and science are again under attack – with global consequences. USAID, which tackled HIV, TB, malaria and child malnutrition is gone. Funding has been withdrawn from GAVI, a public–private global alliance that helps buy vaccines for the world’s...