So you admit, you're using political science to promote your agenda. Thank you. |
Where is the evidence of this? Global temperatures ARE rising and we ARE seeing the effects. Every developed country in the world besides the U.S. acknowledges this. How do you know all dissenting studies are being buried? Who told you? Was it Fox News? You know what industry also gets a ton of support from the government? Oil and coal. But you don’t believe that is a problem? Why? How is it different than renewable energy in that respect. Moreover, the push for renewable energy didn’t occur until decades after scientific consensus emerged about the threat of climate change. But, somehow, you believe this is all a conspiracy by scientists across the globe to falsify evidence decades in advance in order to create an industry that would allow completely unrelated people to benefit from the U.S. government’s meager tax incentives? You are not that stupid. |
How is that an admission of “using political science to promote [an] agenda”? |
I mean if this is your takeaway, fine. You get to benefit from scientific advancement like all your other fellow morons. You’re posting on a message board. This is your entirely irrelevant contribution to the world. |
Trump and the Republicans are redistributing from the middle and lower class to the rich with their tariff scam. You seem to have no problem with that. F that - I'm all for redistributing wealth in the other direction. |
We're not well funded. We have a national debt of $110,000 for every person in the country. * We're borrowing or creating out of thin-air, 50 cents of every dollar that the government spends, at our present rate. Every dollar created brings on more inflation. Sorry to tell you, but we're out of runway. Let private industry do the research and pay for it. * https://www.usdebtclock.org/ |
That’s not how inflation works. |
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Not a conservative at all and also a scientist so this is just a guess.
Scientific research has not been kind to the underprivileged and people of color. Historically, it has led to a distrust of doctors and the medical community. Additionally, research is often spoken about serving a small percentage of the population. The well has been poisoned by studies addressing some small issue with those that they deem unworthy - women, trans, etc. Again, just a guess. I don't get it. |
This is valid, but MAGA had no issue with science until scientists started saying things Trump didn’t like. |
That's exactly how inflation works. |
Prove it. |
It's not my job to teach your f'n dumb ass. |
So you can’t. Got it. |
That's not from health research. That's from unfunded, decades-long wars, and from cutting taxes. Cutting research is like me clipping my toenails in an effort to lose weight. |
You haven't provided any specifics, so I am curious: is it just SOME science you claim is politicized, or all of it? If not all of it, can you tell me what science is politicized? Here is an example of politicized science. Anthony Mawson is the lead author of a study cited by RFK during his confirmation hearings; he concluded that vaccines are associated with increased risk of neurodevelopment disorders including autism. Mawson published his article in an open-source online journal but it was quickly retracted after preliminary review. A year later he published it in a second online journal with a different title and it was quickly retracted again. Subsequently he published it as a Wordpress blog. The study was funded by an anti-vaccine advocacy group, whose president sued (and lost in summary judgment) Wired magazine after a Philadelphia physician commented in an interview about his frustration with movements spreading disinformation and said, "she lies." But the article is deeply flawed from a scientific standpoint. Mawson used Medicaid billing records and self-reported outcomes from homeschool parents, comparing those who vaccinated and those who did not vaccinate their children. Among the results was that parents whose children were not vaccinated according to billing records were less likely to take their children to the doctor. Among the flaws was the assumption that kids of families in the study had only received vaccinations through Medicaid, since there are other vaccination programs. Another is the likelihood that parents who avoid vaccinations are less likely to take their children to the doctor, period, let alone receive a diagnosis. I know some of these people. If the child has a sniffle they reach for the colloidal silver. They also avoid doctors out of fear they could be reporter to CPS (these include mothers who refuse vitamin K shots for their newborns (for the rare but real risk of intracranial bleeding leading to brain damage or death, and I know at least one who refuses to have her dog vaccinated for rabies because of potential vaccine side effects). The author did not have access to actual medical records, relying instead of parents' self reports of their children's medical conditions. You can read the rest of the study's problems here: https://theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-failure-why-this-latest So, you're right--there is a lot of politicization of science these days, mostly not where (I suspect) you think it is. Climate science? MNRA vaccines? When you say there is politicization of science, you're saying there's stuff labeled as science that is not following scientific principles. Seems to me that this actually does you require to provide evidence. We don't, for example, have to provide that people generally obey traffic laws; we focus on those who do not. |