"Donald Trump's US Election Win Stuns Scientists"

"Republicans sweep White House and US Congress, with uncertain implications for research."

"Republican businessman and reality-television star Donald Trump will be the United States’ next president. Although science played only a bit part in this year’s dramatic, hard-fought campaign, many researchers expressed fear and disbelief as Trump defeated former secretary of state Hillary Clinton on 8 November.

'Trump will be the first anti-science president we have ever had,' says Michael Lubell, director of public affairs for the American Physical Society in Washington DC. “The consequences are going to be very, very severe.”

Trump has questioned the science underlying climate change — at one point suggesting that it was a Chinese hoax — and pledged to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement."

Jeff Tollefson, Lauren Morello, and Sara Reardon report for Nature November 9, 2016.

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