From Peter Holness, Bengeo, Hertfordshire, UK
You underplayed the carnage being wrought on world-class US science by the actions of Donald Trump and Elon Musk as they pull plugs on whole institutions and their labs. I ask readers to spare a thought for hard-working US scientists with invaluable troves of data that are about to be lost to the world in a pointless historical tragedy worse than the fire that destroyed the Great Library of Alexandria. While there is still time, I suggest all European scientific institutes and universities reserve server space to capture and retain as much of that data as possible. And I appeal to US scientists to exfiltrate their data to somewhere safe (Leader, 12 April).
