{"id":194415,"date":"2024-08-12T15:23:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T20:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/american-science-is-in-dangerous-decline-while-chinese-research-surges-experts-warn"},"modified":"2024-08-12T15:23:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T20:23:24","slug":"american-science-is-in-dangerous-decline-while-chinese-research-surges-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/american-science-is-in-dangerous-decline-while-chinese-research-surges-experts-warn","title":{"rendered":"American Science is in Dangerous Decline while Chinese Research Surges, Experts Warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/american-science-is-in-dangerous-decline-while-chinese-research-surges-experts-warn2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very dangerous position to be in the world community of scientist should gather in agreement those friendly to the values and principles of democracy to advance science for the good humanity and freedom.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The U.S. sorely needs a coordinated national research strategy, says Marcia McNutt, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/saima-s-iqbal\/\">Saima S. Iqbal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a first-ever \u201cState of the Science\u201d address at the end of June, National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt warned that the U.S. was ceding its global scientific leadership to other countries\u2014highlighting China in particular. McNutt, a widely respected geophysicist, said this slippage could make it harder for the U.S. to maintain the strength of its economy and protect its national security. She also laid out a provisional plan of action to reverse the decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very dangerous position to be in the world community of scientist should gather in agreement those friendly to the values and principles of democracy to advance science for the good humanity and freedom. The U.S. sorely needs a coordinated national research strategy, says Marcia McNutt, president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. By [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,224,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-science","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}