According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, over 700 scientific grants (or portions of grants) have been terminated during Donald Trump's second term, and his current nominee for Surgeon General doesn't hold a current medical license. This unprecedented attack on science is frightening.

I witnessed ground-breaking research back in the hills of West Virginia years ago. Research coal owners tried to stop so they wouldn't have to compensate miners who were suffocating from black lung.