Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’
Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’
Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status
What they were offering – through a programme titled Safe Place for Science – was a sort of “scientific asylum”, offering three years of funding at their facility for about 20 researchers.
On Thursday the university said it had received 298 applications in a month, of which 242 were deemed eligible. The applicants hailed from institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Nasa, Columbia, Yale and Stanford, it said in a statement.
Most of the applications were sent using encrypted messaging, the university’s president, Eric Berton, wrote in the French newspaper Libération.
science will occur just not here anymore. take a look at the middle east once the science capitol of the world for thousands of years it is only now coming back.
The worst thing is that science is produced in Israel
Believe it. The brain drain