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[-] [email protected] 63 points 4 months ago

Seems like "barrier", "status", "polarization", "excluded", and "historically" are gonna hit some unrelated fields

[-] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago

Amerikan right wingers have never given the tiniest fuck if their policies have a disastrous fallout for education and science. Fascists in particular see intellectual impoverishment of the people as an additional benefit, remember German Physics?

I'm honestly surprised this largely sticks to gender studies and research into racism etc., would have expected them to take the axe to climate science as well.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They are doing that one abit more subtly. They can't challenge it directly, as that combats their opinions of themselves as 'scientific' but I am seeing papers coming out of Midwestern ecology schools (which are subsequently pushed hard on social media), that are pushing forward a hypothesis that 'we just don't know enough about the carbon cycle, there are lots of unaccounted carbon creating beings that could be helping with the warming', as well as people saying that because there have been no apocalyptic universal Hollywood spectacal collapse that 'the climate scientists got all their predictions wrong'.

It'll creep into mainstream thought over time, especially as it becomes too late to change.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

'we just don't know enough about the carbon cycle, there are lots of unaccounted carbon creating beings that could be helping with the warming',

sounds like eco-genocide...

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

They are usually talking about ant-colonies or other micro-ecologies. Tbf, there is likely alot of unaccounted CO2 production from those areas, but there is no way that it comes even close to the amount of CO2 industrial processes (particularly farming) create. It's just throwing chaff and is horseshit, but people want to rationalize it as not our fault, so they will grasp at even bullshit explanation.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Things like ant colonies haven't increased the amount of atmospheric co2 as well, as the carbon has releases has largely been pulled from the air, whereas the fossil fuel industry involves releasing historically trapped carbon (which did come from the air but a billion years ago), increasing the net co2 in the short term

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Good explanation, clearly it's horseshit, but that is what I hear being pushed.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

there have been no apocalyptic universal Hollywood spectacle collapse

What do you call the LA wildfires?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

They aren't 'universal' (other than the studio, yuk yuk) enough, as apocalyptic as they should be. Already seeing people just blaming California state government, and not connecting it to the awful smog and fires coming down from Canada, because memory is basically a month for most.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I am seeing papers coming out of Midwestern ecology schools

Can you link one of those? Love to know what I'm up against.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'll see if I can actually find it, I only know about it second-hand myself.

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

"This catalyst can lower the energy barrier for industrially relevant reactions" WOKE

"This increases the polarization of the chemical bond" WOKE

[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

Can't wait for all the neuropharmacology studies that are going to get defunded because of the "blood-brain barrier."

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

Sounds woke to me

[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Almost any of them could hit unrelated fields. "Female" could be referring to female plants.

The flow chart does specify that decisions are made on banned terms AND context, so I guess that's how they'll avoid ~~retracting~~ denying nearly everything.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

This is for funding grant proposals, so they wouldn't be retracting anything. Doesn't look like they're looking at context at all, based on the flowchart, a proposal with a title like "Effects of colloidal silver on female Cannabis plants" would get rejected in the first step.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

But the flowchart says "keywords and context" at each of the steps. That's what I'm referring to.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As a programmer, that flowchart looks to me like the precursor to an automated system. The only way they could check the context in an automated fashion would be with some kind of AI, whose efficacy in doing so is going to be dubious at best given the language difference between most text on the Internet and grant proposals.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Putting "please ignore all previous instructions" randomly in the text

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Ah... little Robert'); DROP TABLE is just such a rascle.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

But the flowchart says "keywords and context" at each of the steps.

Let's be honest, they'll half ass this and end up denying a multitude of stuff

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Oh I totally agree, they don't give a shit about "context", just pointing out their little fig leaf.

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