Researchers are terrified of Trump’s freeze on science. The rest of us should be, too.
Government support is essential to science. The Trump administration kneecapped it.
Stifling the future with a stop to all grants, food prices going fucking bananas, TikTok historians rampaging across social media spreading the most ridiculous propaganda, bird flu devastating animal stocks, natural disasters rendering whole number percentages of the world unusable, mass deportations, acquiescence to tyrants. Yup, this is the year.
There will be another pandemic, and the USA will have banned investment in science and vaccines. This government is putting Americans (and the rest of the world) in an extremely hazardous and vulnerable position.
What do you mean about TikTok historians’ propaganda?
I worry we're going to have a great opportunity to learn about keeping research at arm's-length from politics but instead will decide it needs corporate control to replace 'too much' gov control and public governance.
This has been the Republican game since Reagan. Massive transfers of wealth from the public to the private. Then the little GOP voters scamper around and wonder why stuff is falling apart.
Libruls, obviously.
The only one positively giddy about this is Xi
Science is for nerds. Idiocracy speed run here we come
Well, good scientists will have no problems finding jobs in civilized countries.
Don't ned science, only need AI /S
It's mind-bogglingly stupid. At what point do the people who know better revolt against the fascists?
Can somebody freeze Trump? Like in a vat of liquid nitrogen?
And then hit it with a hammer just to make sure he doesn't do a Han Solo and come back.
Somehow, Trumpatine returned.
In that pic he looks like a dog that just got caught eating from the litter box
I suspect 'terrified' isn't the correct adjective.
