“The United States is the world’s pariah nation… Our peers in the free world view us with pity and concern.”

In an open letter addressed to President-elect Joe Biden published in Scientific American today, Benjamin Santer, PhD, a climate researcher and U.S. National Academy of Sciences member, urges Biden to restore public trust in science and scientists.

The Trump administration, he writes, made federally funded science agencies subordinate to the president’s ego, and Americans — battered by the impacts of climate change and mountain pollution — have suffered as a result. “You must convince the women and men working in these agencies that their new prime directive is not political loyalty to one person — the new directive is ‘get the science right,’” he writes.

Read the rest of the open letter in Scientific American:

An Open Letter to Joe Biden