Many scholars are becoming aware of a change in the tide of public support for their work, reflected in proposed budget cuts for many federal science funding agencies, and are struggling to decipher the reason for this shift. Some researchers feel that political groups are targeting their work for its inconvenient truths, while others resort to thinking, ‘If people only knew how important my work is.’ Either or both of those views could be true, but researchers in the academic community have no one to blame but themselves for waning public enthusiasm and financial backing.
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