Comment on New executive order puts all grants under political control
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.
Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development.
It’s actually much worse than that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Trump is not just going to suppress real science, he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.
We’ve already got RFK doing that. The State Dept has also adopted pseudohistorical stances, and the Education Dept being cut is so they can teach those stances as fact.
he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.
Like ivermectin?
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s easy for old people to be short-sighted. They don’t have to take responsibility for fucking things up in the long term, because they’ll be dead.
Stable governments should elect people that have a reason to plan long term.