Comedian Seth Rogen found this out the hard way this month, when he presented at an awards ceremony for scientific innovation, the Breakthrough Prize, which annually doles out awards of dubious merit to various members of the field’s gilded class.

Seth Rogen's joke that President Trump had "single-handedly destroyed" American science was edited out of the Breakthrough Prize awards recording.

While presenting an award at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony this month, Mr. Rogen said President Trump had “single-handedly destroyed all of American science.”