> Many of the scientists I spoke with for this story insisted that they didn’t feel their actions were political—and expressed concern over them being perceived

> Many of the scientists I spoke with for this story insisted that they didn’t feel their actions were political—and expressed concern over them being perceived as such. Although they were fighting back against the government, they told me, their intentions are to advocate for evidence. […] That decline in trust, Shariff predicts, will concentrate among those on the right, who “will see science as more politicized than they did before,” he said, “because it’s taking a side.” The article is about defending scientific methods and the field as a whole and how that is shifting society to the right, not how scientific research is applied? Besides that nobody claimed it was "new": What I think is new, unheard of before, that a US president is openly advocating against evidence-based science.