Dan York11h ago
David Ho

I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.

It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world’s population.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

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Show threadnoplasticshower14h ago
@davidho Republicans suck
Show threadBrett Coulstock11h ago
@davidho The problem with science is that it can be biased and perverted. People lose trust in science when it winds up saying whatever industry has paid it to say. Academia is also seriously toxic in many places. I'm a big fan of science, but it's easy to see where the trust was lost.
Show threadskua10h ago

@BrettCoulstock @davidho

Yeah, science vastly empowers.

It's the non-sciences of ethics, morals, values, politics that needs to keep science and technology firmly under control.

And has not.

Show threadSerge 🔻7h ago
@BrettCoulstock @davidho Apparently their propaganda is working. I guess it’s not surprising, considering certain industries and political movements have been trying to discredit science and scientists for many decades.
Show threadNew Age9h ago
@davidho
Honestly, I think the U.S. right now has vastly bigger problems to deal with than science funding cuts.
Show threadMx Verda7h ago
@sunscream @davidho this feels myopic
Show threadNew Age1h ago
@MxVerda
Science is an orthogonal human endeavour to creating an open, inclusive society that can resolve conflicts without violence. Totalitarian governments have shown they are perfectly capable of making scientific and technological progress. Right now we are in a crisis of reverting to a barbaric form of government. It's a question of what our priorities as citizens should be. Science is not going to die. Let others preserve it and make progress for awhile.
Show threadThe Return of Kozeshi7h ago
@davidho
We have to do science resiliently. Do it in spite of the lack of money and a hostile system. Because it is needed now more than ever.
Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell7h ago

@davidho

Worst of all, this is a scheduled disassembly. I would like to emphasize again, and maybe everybody in the sciences already know this and have discussed at length, but the morbidly rich are a public health crisis for civilizations.

Check the track record straight back to antiquity. It is unblemished.

Show threadMensch, Marina7h ago
@davidho the path continues, direction dystopia
Show threadCJ7h ago

@davidho

Yes to everything you said but I feel too change one number:

Science is how we’re able to grow food that feeds ALL of the world’s population.
Capitalism is how we can only feed half of the world's population with it.

Show threadMartin Slavík6h ago
@davidho
The world is flooded with the idea that "you should fund your own research, just like Musk does."
Show threadVladimirN6h ago

@davidho
mmmh.
I'm quite sure you used too many long words for him and his fans to understand.
Good try though.

Maybe US-citizens should focus on next mid-terms and educate the voters to :
1. understand how much and why current administration is toxic for them.

2. Go to enlist their vote.

Please, excuse a foreigner to give you advise on what to do.
BR

Show threadPetr Skála6h ago
@davidho 👍
Show threadvepř jako pepř4h ago
@davidho a syndicate of scientists would be nice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate#Labor_syndicates
Syndicate - Wikipedia

Show threadNobody ناچیز नास्ति (he/him)2h ago
@davidho
Science in the hands of Nazis is worse and when Nazis rule the roost, the whole system nazifies quickly.