The Greens strongly condemn the attacks on scientific research, its funding and its independence by the Trump administration. They advocate free and independent scientific research.
The French Green Party considers that among the disastrous decisions it has taken over the past month, the new Trump administration has notably attacked scientific research, by drastically reducing its funding, by banning research on subjects it considers ideologically undesirable (women, minorities, climate change, social sciences, biodiversity, evolution) and by massively laying off employees of federal agencies.
Scientific data has also been removed from the websites of federal scientific agencies, while some scientists are afraid to communicate about their research, for fear of reprisals. Les Ecologistes consider this not only as unacceptable political interference and a flagrant violation of the independence of scientific research and academic freedom, but also as an obscurantist policy that will have concrete consequences on the quality and production of scientific knowledge, and on its use to inform public debate.
Greens strongly condemn these decisions by the Trump administration, and express their full support for the Stand Up For Science movement, which will give rise to mobilizations in the United States. “These attacks on scientific research, its funding and its independence are also being carried out in France. For 20 years, successive governments have methodically worked to reduce funding for higher education and research, to encroach on academic independence and freedom, and to ignore scientific knowledge in developing public policies,” a post on the party’s website pointed out.
For Greens, a striking example was the witch hunt against “wokeism” and “Islamo-leftism” in universities, initiated by Frédérique Vidal, then Minister of Higher Education and Research, and Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education.
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