White House plans to pull nomination for NASA administrator (www.politico.com)

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Waiting for how bad the replacement will be: obviously it will be a flat earther who also has a financial incentive to damage weather satellites

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

reality conflicts maybe. btw, not exactly science but adjacent.

[+] [email protected] -16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't really want articles from Politico in Science.

*Edited for clarity

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Would you have preferred the yahoo article that reported on the politico article? It was the best I could find at the moment, sorry.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 2 weeks ago

Politico is not a source of science journalism. They have no "Science" category on their website.

There are plenty of communities to call out the current US administration on its depressing politics. Science is not one of them.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

This is a political article about politics that has repercussions for science.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It is definitely a political article about politics and not about science

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You are welcome to find a better article and post it yourself.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 weeks ago

You are welcome to post content related to scientific research rather than politics in the science community

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

This is related to science. The NASA head directs pretty much everything that happens at NASA. Whether you like it or not, the current political situation is affecting the scientific community. Stick your head in the sand if you want, but I cant. I work there.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago

This has nothing to do with sticking my head in the sand and everything to do with the post being misclassified.

It's important news. But it's incongruent with the expectation people have when they subscribe to a community to learn about science. Did I learn anything about science from the Politico article? No, I learned something about politics.

Everything is affected by politics. Politics is the primary topic of the article. Politico agrees, because it is a publication dedicated to politics.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Its not multiple people have said as much. If you dont like it, hide the post.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Multiple people like making every community political and unfocused. It doesn't change the reality that many communities are unfocused.

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