One needs a scorecard to track the devastation wreaked on scientific efforts by the current administration. As it happens, one exists: the Silencing Science Tracker, co-managed by CSLDF and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.
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Podcast: Trump gets rude awakening as organization fights backLearn MoreLauren Kurtz (CSLDF) joins Court Accountability Action’s Lisa Graves to talk about CSLDF’s work to protect scientists against all kinds of attacks, how their work has changed since the first Trump administration, and just how difficult it has become in the second.
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August update: The deadly consequences of disinformationLearn More
The deadly consequences of disinformation Despite the ongoing flood of dramatic and cruel headlines, two stories from the past month…
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Offshore Wind Opponents Target Work of Brown University ResearcherLearn MoreA law firm with ties to the conservative movement has asked for the retraction of research on opposition to offshore wind, saying it is preparing to escalate the matter to the Trump administration.
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind GroupsLearn MoreA law firm with ties to the conservative moment has demanded that Brown University retract research linking the fossil fuel industry to anti-wind groups. “It definitely struck me that they were dangling the possibility of getting the Trump administration involved,” Lauren Kurtz said.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to stop them from making it rainLearn MoreAlthough cloud-seeding has been practiced quietly across several states, it is now becoming tangled up in bad faith and worse science by conspiracy theorists like Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Support Scientists Who Stand UpLearn MoreResearchers should not have to endure death threats or public attacks when they engage publicly and try to combat misinformation.
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July update: Scientists will not be silencedLearn More
Scientists will not be silenced 86. That’s the number of anti-science actions the second Trump administration has taken since January…
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SLAPP’edLearn MoreScientists like me are not trained in legal warfare. So when the notice arrived that I was being sued for defamation, it just did not compute.
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June update: What democracy looks likeLearn More
This is what democracy looks like After five months of chaos and destruction at the hands of a recklessly anti-science,…
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