Dear Breakthrough Prize Billionaires: Fund the Science You’re Watching Trump Destroy

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April 10, 2025, 3:00 PM

• •The billionaires behind the Breakthrough Prizes should fund the research that the Trump administration has canned.
• •Science and innovation in the U.S. are a trillion-dollar endeavor.
• •Trump showed us, over and over during his first administration, how little he cared about science and how little he cared about evidence.

The billionaires behind the Breakthrough Prizes should fund the research that Trump administration has canned. They should put their money into the beginning of the next Breakthrough Prizes instead of at the end. And while they're at it, make sure that work they fund is open source, peer-reviewed, well-designed and ethical.

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