Fear can do terrible things to people. Even scientists and people with civil service protection.
If we donât let anybody talk about it we can magically make believe it doesnât exist.
Which is why all the blathering by scientists about âstanding up for scienceâ is just a lot of wind. Most of them wonât do anything about anything.
Even vote.
UmmmmâŚâcanceled in order to avoid a clash with the incoming Trump administration.â Trumpettes were planning on doing something on CLIMATE that week? Honest to God.
Read âAnd The Band Played Onâ by Randy Shilts when science was victimized by the right wing Reagan/Bush clowns. AIDS.
Trump: God has been controlling climate and we are thankful that we donât need to spend any money. I would rather not have winter anyways.
Perhaps the most serious issue in the world today and the USA is in âstrategic retreatâ on it. Some Russian asshole just said âthe USA can no longer pretend to be the only Super Power anymoreâ in reference to the Syria mess. Syria is small time. Retreating from warming and denying itâs existence is how a super power falls.
Well, thatâll certainly come in handy for the Trump administration when theyâre expected to do something about the spread of Zika virus in the US, when we have a two or three-fold increase in rates of people around the country contracting the illness. Convenient too, because no one will be able to point to the data on how we could have avoided this increase and what plans were in the works to combat it. Those skeeters didnât just get here on a wing and a prayer idiots.
Trump administration motto: IGNORANCE IS BLISS
Another couple of days of warm weather in Michigan and those fucking Chinese stinkbugs too are beginning to crop up all over the place. The ground is saturated from rain like a soupy sponge, my crocuses will be coming up in g-ddamn January, and this is supposed to be the coldest part of winter? But, but, butâŚnothing to see here folksâŚbecause I can drive my car without the snowplow in front of me, and that immediate relief is all some folks care about in their daily lives. Its sad that some people are starting to accept this as normal.
These Trumpsters are not exactly big picture kinda peopleâŚthatâs for sure.
âJust wave the olâ white flag high and hope for the bestâ hardly seems like a winning strategy in the most important battle of our times, but hey, what do I know.
You generalize without proof.
Do you know many scientists?
As a scientist, I can tell you that the most active people on my Facebook feed, standing up to what is going on, participating, voting, are my scientist friends and their spouses. Scientists are all highly educated, and that is one of the groups in this nation that has the highest voting percentage. And, the vast majority of us are terrified at the plans Trump and the Republicans have for science in this nation, which is why you were seeing efforts to copy databases and save websites (which is a large undertaking).
Câmon, CDC â at least give us a tweet warning about golden shower exposure!
The CDC has never been a particularly well-like agency in DC. And its budget is pretty much always under attack. So I can see how they would not like to see a proposal to zero them out first thing in the new administration.
I remember during the eight years under Bush quite a few of fed government data/report publications were cancelled and discontinued, making it hard to track overtime changes of important indicators of the country. Not that this is surprising, knowledge accumulation will certainly get hit in nearly every field. But it does bode truly ill people start self-censorship just on Day 3 out of fear. I brace for far worse under the PeePee shower.
When people, especially scientists, are afraid to communicate because they perceive that their master may forbid it, freedom has already been lost.
Our new President has declared America to be free of disease. Also, he bought five lottery tickets last week, and all of them won the jackpot.
â#alternatefactsâ
Yes, I do. I work with an entire college of them at a major university.
âWe are currently exploring options so that the Summit may take place later in the year,â
CDC caves on day 3. By the end of the year, they will be trumpeting the health benefits of smoking and that a steady dose of lead in your diet builds character!