The governing structure of the National Science Foundation partially insulated science from political control. Evgeny Gromov/iStock via Getty Images Plus

How much should politics influence science, and vice versa? National Science Board’s ousting resurrects an existential debate

The Trump administration fired the entire board that oversees the National Science Foundation, raising an age-old question about the separation of science and state.

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