AUSTIN, Texas — Joe Biden may no longer be vice president, but he’s still leading the charge for his cancer moonshot, and for science funding as well.
“The United States government, at this point in our development, should be doubling and tripling down on investment in pure research across the board,” Biden said Sunday in Austin at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He railed against “this know-nothing crowd who see science as a threat,” compared the Trump administration’s attitude toward climate change to “the Inquisition writ small,” and noted disapprovingly that the White House has left the position of science adviser and head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy unfilled.
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