The cuts hit multiple agencies, affecting work on HIV, gun violence prevention, vaccines, minority health research, and more.On April 1, thousands of federal health workers woke up to find that they had been <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/hhs-job-cuts-april-1/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank">laid off</a>. Scientists and civil servants at the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Institutes of Health were let go as part of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/hhs-job-cuts-april-1/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank">pledge</a> to cut jobs at the country’s top disease-fighting agencies.Host Ira Flatow talks with Umair Irfan, senior correspondent at Vox in Washington, D.C., about the repercussions of these cuts. They also discuss other science news of the week, including a pacemaker the size of a grain of rice, how air pollution affects the climate, and miso made on board the International Space Station.Transcript for this segment will be available after the show airs on <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/episodes/april-4-2025/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank">sciencefriday.com.</a>
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