Report: 10,000+ STEM Ph.D.s Exit Federal Agencies in 2025

Is scientific research funding essential for American prosperity or a wasteful cesspit of junk studies?

Published 1 day ago

Report: 10,000+ STEM Ph.D.s Exit Federal Agencies in 2025

story

Above: U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) during a Senate hearing on the NIH budget on June 10, 2025. Image credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

The Spin

Anti-Trump narrative

Scientific research has driven American prosperity and saved countless lives through vaccines, disease detection and breakthrough technologies. Funding cuts are stalling critical clinical trials and threatening the next generation of innovators who built this nation's economic and military strength. The gains from decades of research investment — expanding life expectancy by nearly 20 years — will be lost without sustained support.

Globalissues

Pro-Trump narrative

Government-funded academic science has become a cesspit of irreproducible junk research used by bureaucrats to justify costly and harmful regulations. Elite universities churn out fraudulent studies while private industry delivers real innovation. The corrupt relationship between left-leaning academics and government policymakers wastes taxpayer money on propaganda disguised as science.

American Thinker

Metaculus Prediction

Limited Coverage

This story currently has limited coverage. We will continue to monitor all major outlets and update our reporting as additional information becomes available.