'The Things We’ll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing
President Trump's budget slashes funding for science and led to the cancellation or reduction of thousands of research programs, so scientists have staged a series of presentations to show legislators innovations that America will miss out on in the future.
The event, dubbed "The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair of Canceled Grants" was held on Capitol Hill and featured 21 science exhibitions that are now canceled due to lack of funding. They include examining coastal erosion, helping disabled children learn, and researching preparation for another pandemic. [...]
"The really smart people who have opportunities, you know, will go to where the science is being done, whether it's Europe or China or other places," Adam Riess, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 2011, told NPR. "I'm definitely hearing from a lot of colleagues who are saying, 'I need to look at, what's plan B.'"
As that old Athena poster used to say: If you think education's expensive, try ignorance.