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If you're too stupid to understand basic science and too proud to admit it, then this is the course of action that you follow.
This has been the longest and most tiring 6 months I've ever experienced
Are these guys just now figuring this out?
I'm not sure I've detected an ideology on the right. They seem to be the most idealess people to have ever been pussyshat.
There are a couple as I see it. You have the religious fundamentalists, I think this is mainly seen in the rules and court cases allowing people to be asses backed by religion. They also are trying to push their ideas nationwide, this is at odds sometimes with the next group. You have the anti-federalists, to them anything the federal government does is evil (especially if its not their rules). This is the ripping out of all the federal departments. They don't see any good coming from them. Any tax is theft, and any money spent is wasted. (military excluded). The third group is similar to group 2, but they are just anti-regulation. "the free market will figure it out". Now I don't think any of these groups have good ideas, but the only reason they are doing what they are doing is because they have ideas and have been working on it for a long time.
Adrian Tchaikovsky is famous for being a prolific science fiction author.
He should also be known for his disturbingly accurate prediction of current events. I keep reading his work then finding the backstories becoming more realistic (and not in a good way).
Which books? Ive read children of time and ruin, loved them. Couldn't get into shadows of the apt though.
Alien Clay is particularly relevant to this thread.
Also his Terrible Worlds novella set, particularly Firewalkers and Ogres.
So, literally exactly what was promised. In excruciating detail.
It’s mind boggling how Trumps policy is twisted positively so relentlessly. There’s so much deciphering of “oh he really means this writes an essay.” No, his platform means what it says.
Then people are shocked when it happens!
Nobody took Mein Kampf seriously either.
Luckily the reality that science attempts to measure doesn’t care about politics and will still exist no matter what he says. What it does mean is that it’ll be discovered in another country and the US will grow more and more isolated
Unfortunatly science is influenced by politics and ideology. Scientific research rely on funding by political and ideological funders
That's the weirdest part of trying to change the "system of science." It's not a system, it's a process, it's rigorous, controlled, and peer reviewed.
What Hitler enabled was psychopaths being allowed to practice torture and murder.
When he says "the scientific system," he's talking about the institutions we have in the US that educate, employ, conduct research, and/or fund people conducting science. I guess I thought it was obvious he's not referencing the scientific method
Oh boy I'd love to hear Donald J Trump's exact thoughts on the scientific method. Every damn thing he's has to say about it will be absolute gold.
I can give it a try.
We're going to make America great again. Not great, VERY great. Tremendously great. Great economy, great people, great science.
Science today, it's not great. All these WOKE theories and hyperthees. That's not science, that's wasted money. The scientists today, they take our money. They give it to Harvard, woke Harvard. Spend it on DEI, not SCIENCE. They're cheating, taking advantage of HARD WORKING Americans. We don't pay them to ask questions. I KNOW science, that's NOT science. We tell them to do science, they don't DO science. They do SOME science, then they do it AGAIN, asking for money. That's FRAUD.
He would just parrot whatever the last person he spoke to said about it.
If he didn't talk to anyone about it beforehand, he would just talk about how "beautiful" our scientific methods are.
“My uncle was a scientist at MIT, so I think I know science better than most people. Also, magnets stop working if they get wet.”
Even then, it will just slow research down and set us back. Scientists won't stop sciencing, and it certainly won't lead to discoveries they want.
The system they're describing helps but the people are the ones that matter, not the institutions.
My point is no matter their approach, they will not be able to control the outcome of scientific research. The anti-intellectual fails to understand this. It's the whole of their being.
It won't set you back. It will permanently and irreparably erode the country's status and capacity as the pre-eminent hub of scientific innovation and discovery.
World War 2 was 80 years ago. Germany has never regained the lead it once held in chemistry and medical research.
In the global long run, yes, you're right, however the point here is comparing what happened in Nazi Germany to what's happening now in the US. It's not about Trump's America trying to get "the discoveries they want," it's about eliminating objectivity and punishing party-line dissenters. They don't actually care about science at all one way or the other, they care about political control
Some of us remember the damage that Bush's stem cell research ban did and how it set the world back decades for literally no reason whatsoever.
This is going to be so much worse than that.
Even then, it will just slow research down and set us back. Scientists won’t stop sciencing, and it certainly won’t lead to discoveries they want.
Well... that can be more serious that you suggest. Tenure-track faculty need publication-worthy projects and grad students; what if the only funding available is military- and surveillance-oriented? Big universities are going to expect scientists to bring in the money or leave.
That's... A fair point. That's probably the best argument I've heard so far.
Yeah, that is exactly what they're trying to do.
Thank you. Finally, a post that reflects what science actually is. I am do sick of people saying "Science says..."
Those of you that paid attention during the evolution and creationism (the round 2) fiasco should be familiar with what's going on right now.
I remember during the GWBush years they tried this whole "put the 10 commandments in classrooms" thing, and they quietly pulled them after students started applying those 10 commandments to their teachers, religious leaders, parents, politicians...
They don't ACTUALLY want these kids learning the Bible because the Bible teaches love and generosity.
I say let them.
Iran was a progressive country once too and look how it is now. Also look at it's power nowadays. The US wants to be Gillead from the handmaid's tale? Then go ahead. You'll be a third world country, unable to feed your own population, within a few years.
Good luck
Well that's maybe the cuntiest comment on here so far today.
Then, a few years from now they will continue to ask why they need to continue to import their scientists from other countries.
Psychopaths, sycophants and grifters vying for power were all very prevalent at German universities and research labs at that time. While Engineering still kind of worked - as it was needed for the war machinery and larger industry - even there, with it being "politically neutral", there was a brain drain - because education allowing for creative thinking was curtailed more broadly, and many talented minds were killed or displaced or even just disfavoured in favour of more nepotistic choices.
And the myth of "German engineering" being fundamentally way above allied engineering during the war still holds in some circles, when mostly it was about different priorities (like - reliability instead of complex engineering, or the proximity fuse instead of rocketry, or radar instead of jet engines), and even in the spaces where Germans had a leg up on their enemies, it was not a fundamental advantage, but a gap that was being bridged even before German scientists were recruited after the war.
As much as history was distorted, the Nazis regime still fancied itself as secular and intellectual, right?
This one seems to view the scientific establishment as a distrusted obstacle, corrupt. There’s not even the pretense. Demolishing “woke” science is the stated point.
Sort of, they also had weird currents of esoteric nonsense, like "Welteislehre" for example. Or Himmlers expeditions to Tibet to find the origins of the master race and evidence of supetnatural abilities. They believed themselves to be secular and anticlerical, but they had their own cult with superstitions.
And they absolutely hated some scientists, relativity was a thorn in their eyes, for example, as "Jewish Science".
That's fascinating. I vaguely knew of the superstition angle, but not specifics or the extent.
There goes my afternoon, thanks.
But it does remind me of similar issues in other countries. China, for example (not to single them out) has issues with Eastern Medicine culture conflicting with scientific practices, right?
There are definitely similarities, but China has its own fascinating history there, with a lot of traditional beliefs resurfacing as weird, sanctioned versions of themselves after the cultural revolution had mostly suppressed them. I think on average, the administration in China will probably have less "true believers" and more "stuff like this is necessary to maintain societal peace and harmony" opportunists.
But that is mostly speculation on my part and hard to gauge without looking into peoples' heads.
good, nothing would destroy the USA harder in the long term
Has someone told them about Lysenkoism?
Literally was coming here to find this. This is the party that's supposedly "against communism" yet here we are about to find out who the next Trofim Lysenko is going to be.
Stupid reality not saying "yes" when some fat wheezing whining dumbass says wrong shit constantly.
Yeah, uhmm... I'm pretty sure - checks notes - yeah, that's actually the exact opposite of how science works... Thanks for playin, tho!
Worked out really great last time it was tried, didn't it?
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Lysenkoism
Care to explain for the layperson?
Other comment made some good points but it's a much more direct comparison with the government dictating science rather than science guiding government.
Lysenko was a soviet scientist who denied genetics and (with backing from Stalin) designed their agricultural system around that obviously flawed belief. It effectively became the state “science” by force; soviet scientists in favor of genetics and natural selection were round up and imprisoned or executed. So they lost entire generations of biologists which set their biological sciences back decades.
Other communist countries also took up the idea (including china) and all their agriculture suffered greatly for it. Millions and millions of people died from malnutrition or starvation.
Thank you for clarifying. I'm sorry if I jumped in with my interpretation. I know who Lysenko was. But not much more than that he was a biologist who kept denying science in behalf of the state. So I didn't know if that was what you meant and that is why I apologised in the advance if I was misinterpreting it.
But yeah, state dictating science. And the U.S. really seems to be headed to that level of catastrophes you described. I need to read more about Lysenkoism. Like I said, I didn't know much about Lysenko other than he was a scientist betraying science for the state propaganda. I don't even know if he believed the nonsense he was spreading. But then again, I don't even know if the ones doing the same now do either. And I have a hard time reading up on people like that. Makes my stomach turn in revolt.
But as a permaculture enthusiastic and someone who has a project with his girlfriend that uses syntropic theory, I'm very curious to read about what kind of nonsense were they applying to farming back then. Do you have any suggestions to read? Like a book or an article? Or should I just put Lysenkoism in a search engine and eventually find the farming part? Would love to know more about this, so if you have some pointers, I would much appreciate to learn more about this.
I think it is comparing the Soviet's movement spearheaded by a biologist named Trofim Lysenko to the the current lobbying to destroy science's credibility. It was akin to the current lobbying against scientific integrity that started in the U.S. and bled everywhere else. People will immediately think of the hacks that move through the podcasts these days, I'm sure you can think of a few too. It's using a veil of pseudoscience to confuse the layman and advance the purpose of a few under another veil, one of an ideology. Lysenko was very much like the figures of today like that kermit the frog imitation that passes for scientific expert on the "dumbtube". I don't want to name these horrific hacks. They're already taking too much of the bandwidth as it is and for far too long. And I hate that most people that think they're too smart to fall for their crap, fall right into the next trap, which is to go argue and generate more visibility for them. These people never learned the old online code "Do Not Feed The Troll". We spotted them and let them starve. But I compared them more to Gremlins, because they multiply. The grifers spot the grift and chime in for the take.
I hope I didn't misinterpreted the comment you asked about. But Lysenkoism is a great shorthand to describe it all indeed.
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