We briefly discussed this week’s State of the Union address and the lack of any significant mention of science in it.   Here’s an essay about this situation by my friend Eric Lander, head of the Broad Institute and former co-chair of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (a Council that does not have any members in the Trump Administration):

Here’s the link:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/01/29/will-america-yield-its-position-world-leader-science-and-technology/Nxpl2xfqfliEHVapCSiERI/story.html