Scientists Raise Alarm Over Truth-Averse Trump Administration

Some of the world’s top scientists are sounding an alert over an oppressive Trump administration and its suppression of important scientific facts, especially on climate change. “When officials use a phrase like ‘alternative facts’ without embarrassment, you know there’s a problem,” physicist Rush Holt, CEO of the nonprofit American Association for the Advancement of Science, said at a press briefing Thursday in Boston before the AAAS annual meeting. “Ideological assertions have be...