efficiency

Science and efficiency should always go hand in hand.

And if basic research is stripped down, streamlined, or tossed entirely in favor of “efficiency”? It will not just be scientists who will suffer—it will be all of us.

Trump announced the creation of something he called the Department of Government Efficiency on Tuesday, and said it would be run by Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

Let us put aside for a moment that Trump assigned two people to head up a department concentrating on efficiency.

In naming the space and electric car tycoon and the healthcare entrepreneur to head a new Department of Government Efficiency, Trump said he expected them to drive “radical change,” something like the Manhattan Project, the government initiative that created the atomic bomb during World War II.