Biden Has Reversed Trump’s War on Science in His First 100 Days Photo: Jiayu Liang/UCS Jacob Carter, Research scientist | April 30, 2021, 9:02 am EDT This post is a part of a series on This post originally appeared in Scientific American and was co-authored with Taryn MacKinney, Genna Reed, Gretchen Goldman, Anita Desikan, Casey Kalman, and Andrew Rosenberg. Hours after he won the 2020 presidential race, then-President-elect Joe Biden delivered his victory speech to a crowd of masked supporters in Wilmington, Del. “What is the will of the people?” he asked. “To marshal the forces of science and the forces of hope in the great battles of our time.”