When reading \u201cOrder dissolves Mpls. VA unions\u201d in the Aug. 12 edition, I became aware of the blatant disregard to safety and well-being that exists toward police and security officers. As a result of an executive order, the union for federal workers was dissolved. The executive order cited national security concerns for this action. Unions representing police and security officers are exempt from the executive order. These are the very people who protect the rest of us \u2014 we should protect them when we can. If federal workers need protection from the evils of labor unions, include everyone \u2014 include police and security officers.<\/p>\n
Linda Emmel, Buffalo, Minn.<\/p>\n
Politicians and the search for objective truth don\u2019t exactly play well together<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Star Tribune published the online article \u201cTrump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants, alarming researchers,\u201d which was about President Donald Trump\u2019s new executive order giving politicians control over federal grants with the power to override peer-review recommendations. A few recent National Science Foundation research awards went for, for example, \u201cInverse Methods for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Non-Crystalline Materials\u201d and \u201cThe genetic basis of complex plumage phenotypes in hybridizing Passerina buntings.\u201d These were rated by their peers, in intense competitions, as among the top proposals likely to advance our scientific understanding. Upon being asked about their expertise to override the science panels, these political appointees might as well respond, \u201cI may not have the expertise, but I did stay at a Motel 6.\u201d<\/p>\n
Our future is literally at stake when politicians substitute their judgement for the rigorous analysis that has, until now, made the U.S. science enterprise the envy of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When reading \u201cOrder dissolves Mpls. VA unions\u201d in the Aug. 12 edition, I became aware of the blatant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97],"class_list":["post-88107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}