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Boston, MA. March 7, 2025.
More than 500 hundred people rallied in the Boston Common near the State House to mobilize action against the cuts to science under the Trump administration. Participants protested the Trump administration’s funding cuts to scientific research, layoffs at federal science agencies, and censorship that they say imperils medical progress, innovation and economic stability. The cuts disproportionately affect Massachusetts, which receives more funding per capita from the National Institutes of Health, than any other state. In the last fiscal year, Massachusetts took in $3.5 billion that supported more than 5,783 projects, including finding drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease, slow antibiotic resistance, and fight childhood cancer. Protesters voiced concerns about cuts to everything from cancer research to vaccine availability. The protest is taking place in Washington, D.C., as well as state capitals nationwide. It was inspired by the 2017 March for Science, when millions of marchers worldwide took to the streets to protest the first Trump administration’s policies that were viewed as hostile to science.
250307SSFS074
Boston, MA. March 7, 2025.
More than 500 hundred people rallied in the Boston Common near the State House to mobilize action against the cuts to science under the Trump administration. Participants protested the Trump administration’s funding cuts to scientific research, layoffs at federal science agencies, and censorship that they say imperils medical progress, innovation and economic stability. The cuts disproportionately affect Massachusetts, which receives more funding per capita from the National Institutes of Health, than any other state. In the last fiscal year, Massachusetts took in $3.5 billion that supported more than 5,783 projects, including finding drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease, slow antibiotic resistance, and fight childhood cancer. Protesters voiced concerns about cuts to everything from cancer research to vaccine availability. The protest is taking place in Washington, D.C., as well as state capitals nationwide. It was inspired by the 2017 March for Science, when millions of marchers worldwide took to the streets to protest the first Trump administration’s policies that were viewed as hostile to science.