PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Schmukler, Juan AU - Pincus, Theodore TI - Could Some Medical Developments Over the Last 60 Years Explain in Part Conditions That Led to the Current US Administration? AID - 10.3899/jrheum.2025-0735 DP - 2025 Oct 15 TA - The Journal of Rheumatology PG - jrheum.2025-0735 4099 - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2025/10/10/jrheum.2025-0735.short 4100 - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2025/10/10/jrheum.2025-0735.full AB - Dr. Richard Panush, a long-time colleague, friend, and coauthor of Dr. Theodore Pincus in a 2005 study,1 expresses appropriate alarm about "Science imperiled."2 He notes profound consequences of cruel,3 unethical, irrational, abrupt, and counterproductive actions, with assaults on universities, termination of grants, and dismissal of essential federal workers and accomplished investigators, while leadership positions are filled by incompetent sycophants.