Image: University of Minnesota researchers, scientists, and others protested President Donald Trump’s proposed scientific research funding cuts on March 7, 2025. (Photo by Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Jake Johnson of Common Dreams reports: “US President Donald Trump on Friday quietly fired every member of the independent board that governs the National Science Foundation, a move seen as an escalation of the administration’s destructive war on science.

Members of the National Science Board (NSB) were notified in a brief email “on behalf of President Donald J. Trump” that their “position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately.” One fired board member, chemist Willie May, told The New York Times that he was “disappointed” but not “entirely surprised,” adding, “I have watched the systematic dismantling of the scientific advisory infrastructure of this government with growing alarm, and the National Science Board is simply the latest casualty.”

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