Wichtige US-Wissenschaftsgremien werden geschlossen – und andere werden weniger offen. Eine Analyse von Nature zeigt, dass die Trump-Administration mehr als 100 Beratungsausschüsse von Wissenschaftsbehörden aufgelöst hat – und die Transparenz und Unabhängigkeit der verbleibenden Ausschüsse eingeschränkt hat.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01301-5
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Yep. In addition to the funding cuts, there’s been massive layoffs, which means there isn’t enough people in these organizations to even use the funds or run these programs.
>President Donald Trump and his administration downsized US science by historic margins last year as it reduced the workforce at federal research agencies by tens of thousands of people and [terminated thousands of research grants](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00088-9). But another set of cutbacks in federal science has drawn less attention.[](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00088-9)Across the government, the administration terminated more than 100 independent advisory panels, comprising university scientists and other outside experts who help to guide national science priorities.
>The cuts — driven by a [February 2025 executive order](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/commencing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/) aimed at shrinking federal bureaucracy — target committees that agencies rely on to assess biomedical and environmental policy, provide guidance on setting research priorities and ensure transparency in how the government makes science-based decisions.
>The scope of these committee terminations is unprecedented, a *Nature* analysis finds (see ‘Cancelled committees’). For example, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which includes the National Institutes of Health, disbanded 77 advisory boards — more than one-quarter of all its advisory committees — in 2025. By contrast, in fiscal year 2024, the agency terminated just two committees.
>A similar pattern of committee closures played out at other agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE). At NASA, more than half of the advisory boards were disbanded.
>These panels, which are governed by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), are typically staffed by researchers and other experts from outside the government. Some of those that were closed in fiscal year 2025 had been advising on topics such as organ transplantation, HIV prevention, high-energy-physics research and planetary science.
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Republicans are known to be fools who eat their own seed corn. But they have never before done so with such open contempt. This country may never recover, and the engine of knowledge and invention that had fueled the postwar growth and dominance of our economy will not turn again.
I’m not surprised as the ep file said that Putin and Trump partied together. The first thing communism needs is the view of capitalism to change toward screw them. All knowledge must be suppressed or controlled. Why do you think the place where ice puts people is Russian? Evacuation of the USA’s position on critical education, civic responsibility and social mobility is being accomplished unless it is stopped by Americans who push back