TOI correspondent from Washington: He thinks diet soda kills cancer cells inside the body when consumed because it scorches grass when poured on it. He claims noise from windmills causes cancer. He most famously mused about injecting disinfectants into the body to kill the covid virus.
Even in a presidency not known for scientific temper, US President Donald Trump’s latest move has landed with unusual force: the wholesale dismissal of the National Science Board, the independent 22-member body, including three Indian-Americans, that oversees the National Science Foundation (NSF), America’s primary engine for funding basic research.
