How science journals are confronting the ‘existential’ question of politics this election

Donald Trump has changed the way scientists engage with presidential elections. 

After he was voted president in 2016, tens of thousands attended the March for Science around the country the following year. When he was running for reelection against Joe Biden in 2020, several journals, including Nature and The Lancet Oncology, took the historic step of endorsing a candidate in a presidential race for the first time. 

This fall, scientists and scientific journals are facing a new reality. Covid-19 is no longer the driving issue of the election, and Americans’ trust in science has declined since 2020. 

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