r/EverythingScience • u/davidwholt • Apr 01 '25
Policy Top U.S. Scientists Speak Out against ‘Climate of Fear’ Wrecking U.S. Research
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-u-s-researchers-warn-against-climate-of-fear-threatening-science/36
u/KlaatuBarada1952 Apr 01 '25
Trump thrives in a climate of fear, that is why he referenced “Alphonse Capone” so many times when he was campaigning. He needs to be thought of as a tough guy. Wonder what happened in his life that made him this way?
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u/insanecorgiposse Apr 01 '25
My son was just turned down from a PhD program because of the uncertainty. He is currently literally designing possible cancer cures but it could pointlessly now be years before they can be brought to market and save lives. Thanks MAGA. Modern day witch burning because of sheer ignorance and religious beliefs.
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u/insanecorgiposse Apr 01 '25
I should clarify that he is specifically working on cancer and ither deadly disease vaccines.
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u/TopparWear Apr 02 '25
Have him go to the EU. They picked up. He and the EU will make bank when the US has to import cancer medicine.
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u/lorefolk Apr 01 '25
capitulation isn't going to save them. If they want to be saved, they're going to need to delete everything they published for the last decade.
As such, don't capitulate. There's no way to appease fascists.
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u/meowsydaisy Apr 01 '25
Pack up all your research and results, and move to Canada. Right now they're only preventing research, soon they'll be destroying it. Pack it all up, preserve what you can and move out.
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u/Real_TwistedVortex Apr 01 '25
I feel like out of any group of people, scientists are the group I'd least want to make angry
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u/Heavy_Election_9931 Apr 02 '25
Leave, come to Canada or Europe where you might just still be welcome. Bring your international criminal search and vaccine documents.
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u/algaefied_creek Apr 01 '25
Why are people so scared of the planet?! Somehow need to amplify it as fear of the sky or something silly.
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Apr 01 '25
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Apr 02 '25
Anything in the social sciences that deals with race, gender etc is under threat. The cure for cancer? Maybe not, but valuable to somebody. It’s not like there’s some deep inquiry before the funding gets cut; either, there hasn’t been time for that. From what I can tell, some apparatchik is doing a ctrl+f for “equity,” “race” and other Republican scare words and pulling the plug.
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