FACT : 100 years ago a Tennessee grand jury indicted science teacher John Scopes for violating the state’s law making it a crime “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals."
History repeats itself.
Pumpkin Palpatine has gutted the sciences. This will hurt the diehard magas with the rest of us, but they are too nihilistic to care.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/22/upshot/nsf-grants-trump-cuts.html?smid=tw-share
"Your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it." #WarOnScience #science #politics #tyranny #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #education scicomm.xyz/@GrrlScienti...
"Your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it."
#WarOnScience #science #politics #tyranny #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #education
This is depressing. Republicans want your kids sewing socks and digging coal rather than solving the challenges of the future.
#USPol #WarOnScience https://gizmodo.com/europe-unveils-565-million-plan-to-attract-scientists-from-u-s-as-trump-defunds-basic-research-2000598127
Fareed Zakaria is right: "These are the building blocks of America's extraordinary strength, created over the last 100 years, and they are now being dismantled in 100 days" www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qk4... #WarOnScience
Fareed’s Take: Trump is guttin...
“The report draws on HELP Committee Minority Staff’s interviews with dozens of federal scientists, workers, and experts to explain how Trump officials are suppressing what scientists can say, controlling how scientists work together, and erasing scientific data.”
#WarOnScience #WarOnPublicHealth #BernieSanders #Science #PublicHealth #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace #TrumpWarOnScience #TrumpWarOnFacts
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/sanders-releases-report-documenting-trumps-war-on-science
A leaked memo reveals sweeping NIH funding cuts targeting vaccine hesitancy, climate change, gender-affirming care, and DEI research. The intent? Almost dystopian.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/nih-hhs-leaked-memo-funding-cuts-trump-war-on-science-vaccines-rfk-climate-change-covid-china/ #NIH #TrumpAdministration #BudgetCuts #Conservatives #WarOnScience
"To even remotely understand what Kennedy is talking about requires one’s brain to be thoroughly bathed in corrosive acid."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-cabinet-conspiracies-missing-children-epstein/ #RFK #RFKJr #Trump #TrumpAdministration #ConspiracyTheories #FarRight #Extremist #WarOnScience
France and the EU capitalizing on the US war on science.
#Trump #WarOnScience #antiintellectual #universities #research
The life-or-death question for "science" now is whether we have the means and methods to win public attention and bring any political energy to bear. As far as I can tell the #WarOnScience is registering as a news blip -- not quite nothing, but too far down the attention/priority list to matter.
🧪Just one more consequence of tRump's #WarOnScience!
www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
NASA budget cuts put wildfire ...
It would be self-defeating for me to complain that it shouldn't require "a team of economists" to tell us research is important to society. This is good - somehow the #WarOnScience has to escape being a niche "academic"
story or just about Ivy League rich kids etc
Trump’s Cuts to Science Fundin...
Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion
Maybe we could all agree on one consistent statistic for messaging: Trump has cut federal funding for research by more than 50%.
#WarOnScience
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iwjcgn5pt2krm2lmav2mdcyz/post/3lnkvc2yw7s2u
#WarOnScience {is like a whisper}
In addition to canceling hundreds of active grants midstream - in direct violation of a court order - all new NSF grants are frozen. The #WarOnScience is dismantling the entire infrastructure of basic research.
Exclusive: Trump team freezes ...
How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts
Nature
April 10, 2025
By Max Kozlov, Chris Ryan
https://stillcoviding.ca/en/news/how-trump-2-0-is-slashing-nih-backed-research-in-charts/
