WIKIMEDIA, THE WHITE HOUSEPresident Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration continues to affect scientists. The Atlantic described how one team of scientists at Harvard University is coping with order-associated travel restrictions. Pardis Sabeti, the head of the lab, is a former Iranian refugee. She recently posted a picture of her Iranian colleagues on social media. “I just wanted to show the faces of the types of people they’re trying to ban,” she told The Atlantic. “They’re off-the-charts brilliant, kind, humble, and hard-working. Last night, they were all here working in the lab, with the Super bowl on in the background.”
Criticism of the immigration order continues to trickle in. This week, 12 doctors’ groups formally protested the ban, according to MedPage Today, and pharma executives are expected to sign their own statement shortly, STAT News added. Nearly 100 biotechnology executives have also signed a letter opposing the executive order, Forbes reported. The letter, due to be published in Nature Biotechnology, notes that more than half of the biomedical researchers in the U.S. are foreign-born.
Meanwhile, STAT reported, a coalition of public interest groups is suing the Trump administration to block another executive order—one telling federal agencies to repeal two regulations for every new one issued. “The Executive Order exceeds President Trump’s constitutional authority, violates his duty under the Take Care Clause of the Constitution, and ...
