Helen CzerskiSo much of the destruction in the USA is away from the spotlight at grass roots level. But the foundations of a modern society are being smashed. The National Science Foundation has just stopped awarding new grants and funding existing ones. That effectively means that work on all existing NSF grants has to stop immediately. Universities are telling researchers to stop spending on those grants right away. That's jobs and progress and opportunity just being eradicated.
Tim Waterman@helenczerski I'm guessing there will be funds available for pseudoscience soon, though. There's a playbook for this from, er, the late 1930s. For example, here's a bit of the history of the University of Tübingen on Wikipedia: "The university played a leading role in efforts to legitimize the policies of the Third Reich as "scientific"."
@timwaterman Ugh, that's a grim thought. I hadn't even got that far in the thinking yet.
Pomegranate_StewThe pseudoscience is already being pushed. They are dangerous and want to cause harm.
Sue Wainscott@timwaterman @helenczerski Time to start designing sound research that has a third tier alternative hypothesis for the current ridiculous grant rubric. H=what the existing facts and models predict, Ha=research disprovable alternative to remove from the possibilities, Hc=research question statement for the Clown show in power in the US at the moment.
@helenczerski @timwaterman With apologies to real #clowns who are amazing artists performing culturally important work!
Dan Riley@timwaterman @helenczerski See also Lysenkoism, Soviet Union 1930s and 1940s:
"More than 3,000 mainstream biologists were dismissed or imprisoned, and numerous scientists were executed in the Soviet campaign to suppress scientific opponents"
ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
RFK Jr as head of HHS has a lot in common with Trofim Lysenko.
