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Meera G. Nair, Ph.D., and Declan F. McCole, Ph.D., AGAF, professors of biomedical sciences at the University of California, Riverside, observe intestinal epithelial cells on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Anjali Sharif-Paul/MediaNewsGroup/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images)

Donald Trump's nuclear war on science

Heather Digby Parton
Elon Musk and a sign for the National Institute of Health (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Musk bites the federal hand that fed him

Amanda Marcotte
(Getty Images)

What is a food pharmacy?

Joy Saha
Donald J. Trump, with a bandage in his hand, removes his face mask as he arrives to speak to supporters from the Blue Room balcony during an event at the White House on Saturday, Oct 10, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's post-COVID brain drain

Heather Digby Parton
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Doctor consulting with a young man (Getty Images/iStock)

NIH to look into male fertility crisis

Daniel Karel
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn addresses the media during a press conference in James S. Brady Briefing Room at the White House on on August 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump announced that the Food and Drug Administration is issuing an emergency authorization for blood plasma as a coronavirus treatment The move by the FDA comes after President Trump accused the FDA of slow-walking the therapy to harm his reelection chances. (Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

FDA's PR meltdown continues

Roger Sollenberger
President Donald Trump tours the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in Bethesda, Md., with Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Faced with a crisis, Trump is clueless

Heather Digby Parton
Microscopic view of Coronavirus (Getty Images)

Coronavirus went undetected for 6 weeks

Igor Derysh
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Jennifer Brea appears in <i>Unrest</i> by Jennifer Brea, an official selection of the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute . (Photo by Sam Heesen)

"Maybe this is all in your head"

Lauren Schiller
(CDC)

Joanna Rothkopf
Paul Ryan takes "ALS Ice Bucket Challenge" (Fox6Now)

Sarah Gray
Smallpox virus (CDC)

Lindsay Abrams
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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-74538p1.html'>Alexander Raths</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Jenny Kutner
(MarkusMainka/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
Photograph of main NIEHS building, with the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Facility (white section) and F-Module in the foreground. (NIEHS)

Jim Morris, Chris Hamby
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