Dismantling Research & Science

2011

2011-01-01 From 2011 to 2019, Fox News repeatedly mocked “shrimp on a treadmill” research, inflating costs and ignoring its food-safety purpose.

https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/how-a-47-shrimp-treadmill-became-a-3-million-political-plaything

2025 January

2025-01-01 Key space programs at risk now include active missions New Horizons, Juno, Mars Odyssey and Maven, observatories Chandra Xray, future developments for Davinci and Veritas, and new space telescopes like the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Habitable Worlds Observatory.

https://www.planetary.org/articles/billions-wasted-mysteries-unsolved-the-missions-nasa-may-be-forced-to-abandon

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/nasa-continues-building-next-gen-roman-space-telescope-despite-budget-worries

2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14007 President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/

2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14143 Providing for the Appointment of Alumni of AmeriCorps to the Competitive Service.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/

2025 February

2025-02-03 Elon Musk revived criticism of “shrimp treadmill” research, calling it an “insane” waste of taxpayer money”.

https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2025/02/11/how-fast-can-shrimp-run-on-a-treadmill-doge-goes-after-commercial-fishing-research/

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/shrimp-treadmill-study-cost-misrepresented-2025-02-21/

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886290989133762746?lang=en

2025 April

2025-04-25 AmeriCorps lost $400 million in funding, affecting 32,000 participants and programs related to disaster recovery, education, environmental stewardship, and public health. Trump rescinded Executive Order 14143 Providing for the Appointment of Alumni of AmeriCorps to the Competitive Service.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5383188/trumps-gutting-of-americorps-hits-hard-for-both-volunteers-and-communities

2025 July

2025-07-31 The Trump administration cut UCLA research grants, impacting things like Parkinson’s disease treatment. A judge ordered the restoration of some of these grants because the government failed to provide sufficient justification for terminating them.

https://www.the-scientist.com/frozen-grants-canceled-futures-the-human-toll-of-ucla-s-research-suspension-73353

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/23/nx-s1-5550852/trump-restore-grant-funding-ucla

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-22/rita-lin-federal-judge-restores-ucla-nih-grants

https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2025/07/ucla/

https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/trump-administration-drops-appeal-of-court-order-banning-coercive-federal-funding-cuts-to-ucla/article_7f38e0dc-a74e-47f1-baa2-661ed14cab2f.html

https://bri.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Economic-and-personal-Impact-of-suspensions_Sep-02_2025.pdf

2026 April

2026-04-28 Trump fired all 22 members of the National Science Board.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-5801465/national-science-board-trump-firing

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/4/28/trump-administration-fires-all-members-of-us-national-science-board

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/29/headlines/trump_administration_fires_all_members_of_the_national_science_board

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/trump-administration-fires-entire-board-of-uss-national-science-foundation-without-warning/4023353.article

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-administration-fires-entire-national-science-board-2026-04-28/

2026 May

2026-05-26 NASA announced plans to build a moon base.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lul2ZUN0RI&list=WL&index=6