{"id":76654,"date":"2026-07-28T09:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/trump-administration-needs-to-stop-public-harassment-of-fauci-and-scientists-open-letter-says\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T09:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:55:25","slug":"trump-administration-needs-to-stop-public-harassment-of-fauci-and-scientists-open-letter-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/trump-administration-needs-to-stop-public-harassment-of-fauci-and-scientists-open-letter-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration needs to stop \u2018public harassment\u2019 of Fauci and scientists, open letter says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letter, published before Anthony Fauci will appear before Congress, accuses Republicans of \u2018waging a war on individual scientists\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jul\/28\/lindsey-graham-funeral-donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu-volodymyr-zelenskyy-iran-israel-hormuz-ukraine-russia-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 155 scientists, physicians and public health advocates have called for an end to what they describe as the \u201cvilification and harassment of many American scientists\u201d by the Trump administration and its allies.<\/p>\n<p>In an open letter published one day before Anthony Fauci, the former top US government science adviser, is scheduled to appear at a high-profile hearing in US Congress, after the Republican-controlled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/hearings\/testimony-of-anthony-fauci\/\">Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee<\/a> compelled him to testify, the scientists and physicians dismissed allegations against the ex-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director as \u201cbaseless\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/28\/trump-administration-fauci-scientists\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter, published before Anthony Fauci will appear before Congress, accuses Republicans of \u2018waging a war on individual scientists\u2019 US politics live \u2013 latest updates More than 155 scientists, physicians and public health advocates have called for an end to what they describe as the \u201cvilification and harassment of many American scientists\u201d by the Trump administration &#8230; <a title=\"Trump administration needs to stop \u2018public harassment\u2019 of Fauci and scientists, open letter says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/28\/trump-administration-needs-to-stop-public-harassment-of-fauci-and-scientists-open-letter-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump administration needs to stop \u2018public harassment\u2019 of Fauci and scientists, open letter says\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}