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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Anti-Woke stuff is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

These idiots will learn one day that you can't kill an idea.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

But you can kill mice! Presumably with a little box and a miniature, spring-loaded boxing glove stored inside

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Orwell would disagree, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fortunately, he's not a historian.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But he’s got lived experience of totalitarianism. Of rhetorical practices states use to crush ideas.

Epistemically he’s very qualified to comment on this.

And academics who you might call historians, like Foucault, would back him up here.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You have more hope than me that nazis can change.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is why politics and science shouldn't mix. The truth is the truth, no matter how inconvenient it is to your bottom line.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

How about instead of burning down the entire house because you saw a spider you, uh, don’t do that. Government grants for scientific research are amazing things because profit need not be a motivator and the research can be shared among everyone, not kept secret and maybe not even used.

This is not a valid form of government, it’s just outright authoritatian tyrrany. There need to be laws protecting instituations from that danger but of course the US has always been much further from the utopia it claims to be than would allow for that sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Politics and Science will literally always mix. Science always exists in a political context. It’s not some platonic ideal.

The research that gets funded, published, advertised. The people that have the privilege to get degrees and academia jobs. Is all inherently political. It’s maybe more obvious now with Trump’s meddling, but it literally always has been this way.

I think it’s dangerous to look at science (especially social sciences, political sciences, economics, sociology, psychology etc.) without considering the political context.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I understand that, my point was in an ideal world expert panels and not politicians would get the final say in policy-setting and funding decisions. My main example is the clusterfuck the NIH and health department has become under the lunatic in charge.

I understand that this stuff is inherently political, I had to pivot on the narrative of my own master's thesis because of the "interesting" results we generated

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

But

  • Who decides who is the experts?
  • Who gets the opportunity to become an expert?
  • What are the experts taught at school?
  • Who picks the experts?

All this is political.

What you’re describing is technocracy. And it has major limitations.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I went through some of my papers partially supported by US grants and all of them use a bunch of forbidden words. This is basically pure maths, and you are not allowed to use "equality" as in the relationship between one expression and another is an equality? It is so increadibly stupid. Look:

A dangerous sign of wokeness

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

That’s so fucking asinine

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Me frantically going through all my Maths papers to replace the equal sign with “Is Equivalent to”

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The party that swears there are only Two Genders really seems to only believe in One.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So it now includes non-binary mice!

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