When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed

It seems that the examples given in the article are about non-US citizens caught in a tangle of sorts but some physicists are wanting to apply it to themselves as a whole.

As they well should.

Science has been completely destroyed through grant revocation at Colombia on the pretense of unconnected protests about Israel and Palestine.

There is no targeting based on who did what, just being in the same institution is enough.

And many of these physicists have workers from other countries doing research for them. Even if they are US citizens, their thought crimes will have severe problems for those employees.

"Science has been completely destroyed"

Really? Completely?

Would you prefer the phrasing "US scientific and public health infrastructure has been subjected to capricious changes that will effect almost all aspects of research and health care for a decade or more"?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00954-y

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-plan-overhauli...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00780-2

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/03/report-us-scientists-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/28/trump-adm...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/trump-ame...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00525-1