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minus-squarebtaf45@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-23 days ago Welp, goodbye all non-corporate RND in almost all scientific development. It’s actually much worse than that. Those who fail to understand history are condemned to repeat it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism Trump is not just going to suppress real science, he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.
minus-squareMirshe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoWe’ve already got RFK doing that. The State Dept has also adopted pseudohistorical stances, and the Education Dept being cut is so they can teach those stances as fact.
minus-squareOutlierBlue@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days ago he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically. Like ivermectin?
It’s actually much worse than that. Those who fail to understand history are condemned to repeat it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Trump is not just going to suppress real science, he will start actively promoting pseudo-science that he thinks will help him politically.
We’ve already got RFK doing that. The State Dept has also adopted pseudohistorical stances, and the Education Dept being cut is so they can teach those stances as fact.
Like ivermectin?