The second Trump administration is on a highly visible mission to suppress science and public health efforts, through the mass layoffs in scientific departments and agencies, removal of thousands of data sets from federal websites, questioning the safety of life-saving vaccines, and many more extreme authoritarian actions.
In this episode I’m joined by Spencer Spellman, who holds a Masters in Positive Psychology and is the creator of Fellas Night In, to discuss examples of the disturbing and dystopic ways that the current administration is on a rampage to dismantle our scientific institutions and replace peer-reviewed research with alternative facts.
Organizations to support mentioned in the episode:
Other media mentions:
https://michaelmann.net/books/science-under-siege/
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5495338/climate-change-environment-websites-trump
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evidence-on-tylenol-and-autism
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/30/elon-musk-doge-timeline
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