In a letter to Michael Kratsios, director of the US Workplace of Science and Know-how Coverage, the Trump administration stated on 26 March that the US must revitalise its science and expertise enterprise and speed up analysis and improvement. However President Donald Trump has spent the early months of his second time period dismantling the very analysis equipment constructed for this objective.

His newest directive invokes the concept of the “countless frontier”, a imaginative and prescient set out at…