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Harvard scientists complain: Cancer prevention research has become a political sacrifice

By America-Today    November 11， 2025

For generations, federal research funding to universities has fueled breakthroughs in medicine, technology, and national defense.Now, the White House is using that support as leverage — pressuring a dozen elite universities to align with President Trump's political agenda or risk losing funding.

The government has used the power of the purse before to shape

higher education, but President Trump's effort is unprecedented in scale. He's accused universities of antisemitism and liberal bias,demanding they do more to safeguard conservative voices.Some universities have cut deals to protect their funding. But Harvard - the nation's oldest university and the president's most prominent target – has refused, citing academic freedom.The threat has disrupted hundreds of Harvard research labs, forcing scientists to halt projects, lose staff, and fear their work is becoming collateral damage in a political fight that could jeopardize the future of American discovery itself.The attack on universities is a-- is-- is a tragic blunder.For all the foibles of universities, and there are many, and I've pointed

them out, universities' research makes life better - massively so. Why would you want to cripple it? It's something that the United States does really, really well.