Science Trumped

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When US health expert sighed last week that science could now speak again, his sense of relief was shared by many scientists. Since the start of the Trump administration, experts inside the US government's science agencies, and those outside working with them have felt their efforts sidelined. From the coronavirus effort to international relations and the border wall, Roland Pease hears from some of those who have felt shut out of the nation's science conversation these past four years. Presenter: Roland Pease Picture: U.S. President Donald Trump references a map held by acting Homeland Security, credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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0:32.3	One of the things that was very clear as recently as about 15 minutes ago
0:36.0	when I was with the president is that one of the things that we're going to do is to be completely transparent, open and honest. If things go wrong,
0:46.2	not point fingers, but to correct them and to make everything we do be based on science
0:52.4	and evidence.
0:53.6	It wasn't only the language that was different at Tony Fauchy's first press conference
0:57.7	under the new Biden administration.
1:00.1	The mood was lighter too.
1:01.7	The US's favorite scientist and the voice of the fight against
1:05.2	coronavirus sounded almost debullient. Reporters pushed him.
1:09.7	You've joked a couple times today already about the difference in this administration
1:14.5	versus the previous one.
1:16.3	You know, I mean, you for so many times you stood up behind the podium with Donald Trump
1:20.0	standing behind you.
1:22.4	Can you talk a little bit about how you feel kind of released
1:25.8	from what you had been doing for the last year? Yeah, but you said I was joking
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