Richard Dawkins and Other Prominent Scientists React to Trump’s Win

By Andrea Gawrylewski

This week the U.S. elected businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump as its 45th president. As Scientific American has reported in the run-up to the election, Trump’s views on science, health and medicine appear unformed at best, ignorant and destructive at worst. To get an idea of what top minds in science, health and research are thinking, we reached out to Scientific American‘s Board of Advisers to get their quick-fire reactions to the election outcome. The excerpts, some of them edited for length, appear below.

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