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Gwyneth's avatar

"Implementing this executive order would seriously threaten the health of the U.S. economy, technology, and military national security."

Umm, excuse me for asking, but what about the health of people?

AndyinBC's avatar

"what about the health of people?"

What do "the people" have to do with science?

Asking for a friend.

Gwyneth's avatar

Considering that it was "The Science" that was shoved down our throats for four+ years and that science doesn't exist without "the people", I would say that "the people" have a lot to do with it:)

Gunther Heinz's avatar

Not every cow gets a name, when the herd is really, really big ....

ScuzzaMan's avatar

Dang! I thought dark matter and dark energy were the funniest things to have ever happened to science.

E. W. Zepp's avatar

Apparently there’s also “dark science”. That which exists but you can’t see it or feel its presence. It just is.

ScuzzaMan's avatar

you can only measure its drag on science ... a very apt parallel!

Respect.

James Wills's avatar

I've seen those videos. Sometimes I think David Weigel at the Post was right: they're all bi- you just have to figure out if it's sexual or polar.

Tonya's avatar

"Gold standard," "evidence based," "data driven," whatever.

None of it means the thing we really need: completely transparent research, data, and discussion, open to debate and alternate interpretations, accessible to all, and not funded by industry or government.

PJ London's avatar

Just remember this is Trump we are talking about. I could go talk to him and in 5 minutes he would be writing an EO to give $2 - $3 billion to the Flake University of Idaho to research and bring to market a low cost version of Phlogiston, because that would really Make America Great Again.

He was just suckered because someone said "Gold Standard" and everyone knows how much he loves "Gold", he had no clue what they were talking about.

Gunther Heinz's avatar

Politics is the hot air that inflates the moral identity.

pyrrhus's avatar

We've been talking about the "confirmation crisis" for a couple of decades now, and it goes back even further...In some respectable journals, and trash which the Scientific American has become, a majority of the contributions are somewhere between dubious and laughingstock material..,,.,

Scott's avatar

Regarding the women ranting, don't forget the bird hands. Once you notice it, you can't unsee it. *peck, peck, peck*

Fabius Minarchus's avatar

Hersterical is a misspelling. The word hysteria already refers to specifically female emotionalism. It has the same root as hysterectomy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria

William M Briggs's avatar

No. Then they wouldn’t have herstory.

Gunther Heinz's avatar

Female is a social construct. Boy, are you way, way behind ....

Bill Quick's avatar

Yeah still stuck in reality, poor fellow.

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Bill Quick's avatar

Supposedly it was his own decision to Rage Quit when his boss got fired. My assumption is that he saw the writing on the wall.