Physics or Politics?

Dawson replies: Science may be clean, cold, and objective, but it exists in a world that is anything but. When scientists form significant groups—the 48 Nobel laureates, for example—to endorse one candidate over another, Physics Today should cover it. When threats of revenge are implied—“pushback” was the term an administration spokesperson used—then we should cover that as well. The funding of science is, by its nature, political.