Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past

Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past

We need to reckon honestly with science’s past and present to avoid a grim futureScience is in crisis. Funding infrastructures for both basic and applied research are being systematically decimated, while in places of great power, science’s influence on decision making is waning. Long-term and far-reaching studies are being shuttered, and thousands of scientists’ livelihoods are uncertain, to say nothing of the incalculable casualties resulting …