> In a section titled “scientific freedom,” the document seems to refer at least obliquely to developments in the United States, where scientists working on top

> In a section titled “scientific freedom,” the document seems to refer at least obliquely to developments in the United States, where scientists working on topics such as gender, global health, and climate change have seen their funding slashed and important data sets have been scrubbed from the websites of federal agencies. “Funding decisions will be based on science-driven criteria,” the document states. “It seems like that should be a no-brainer, but we have seen how quickly it can change,” says Eva Winkler, an oncologist and medical ethicist at Heidelberg University and a member of the German Ethics Council. If this obliquely refers to anything, then to a scandal under the last german government, where the minister of science and education had demanded to know whether any signatory to an open letter received funding from the ministry[1]. [1]: https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/politik/foerdermittel-affaere-im-ausschuss-6495 https://www.forschung-und-lehre.de/politik/foerdermittel-aff...