#waronscience — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #waronscience, aggregated by home.social.
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"The Trump administration has pulled federal funding for an annual report chronicling the changing #environment of the Arctic, where rapid warming is upending ecosystems, reconfiguring trade routes":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/climate/noaa-arctic-report-card.html
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"The Trump administration has pulled federal funding for an annual report chronicling the changing #environment of the Arctic, where rapid warming is upending ecosystems, reconfiguring trade routes":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/climate/noaa-arctic-report-card.html
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“A surgical, scalpel-like attack on the actual process of science that is buried under procedural rules and boring-sounding language.”
https://www.theverge.com/science/966711/omb-grant-science-space-nasa-planetary-society #WarOnScience
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“A surgical, scalpel-like attack on the actual process of science that is buried under procedural rules and boring-sounding language.”
https://www.theverge.com/science/966711/omb-grant-science-space-nasa-planetary-society #WarOnScience
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@elgringomexicano Agreed! Even if I personally lack interest in sports, the disparagement of athletes is wholly unjustified.
There are certainly problematic aspects with lots of sports culture, but the same can be said for any culture. How many scholars have we seen demonizing trans people lately? Too many to count! Dorian Abbot, John Armstrong, Peter Boghossian, Maarten Boudry, Alex Byrne, Nicholas Christakis, Roger Cohen, Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, Niall Ferguson, Janice Fiamengo, Solveig Gold, Moti Gorin, Karleen Gribble, Carole Hooven, Geoff Horsman, Joshua Katz, Sergiu Klainerman, Lawrence M. Krauss, Anna Krylov, Luana Maroja, Christian Ott, Bruce Pardy, Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker, Richard Redding, Arthur Rousseau, Gad Saad, Sally Satel, Lauren Schwartz, Alan Sokal, Allesandro Strumia, Judith Suissa, Alice Sullivan, Jay Tanzman, Abigail Thompson, Amy Wax, Elizabeth Weiss & Frances Widdowson all contributed to a single book, published on July 29, 2025, called "The War on Science" promoting anti-queer ideas like binary gender or intersex denial & defending various racists against "cancel culture" & "political correctness". That is just one book. Countless more, highly respected scholars have espoused anti-trans views, such as Norman Finklestein. I lost a lot of respect for Finklestein, who I previously respected very deeply, after reading his horrible blog post called "Transgender Cult", published on June 14, 2023 at https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/transgender-cult/
Prejudice is no more "treating X like sports teams" than "treating X like geopolitical blocs" or "treating X like political parties." Prejudice is a fundamental human tendency. Prejudice co-exists with & is balanced out by the countertendency that is allophilia, the love of groups one is not a member of. Varying levels of prejudice & allophilia exist between individuals & cultures. Humans have many tendencies & countertendencies. We have the tendency to sadism & to sympathy, to envy & symhedonia, to love & hate, to friendship & enemyship, to struggle for existence & mutual aid, to domination & mutuality. It was especially common during the Cold War, post 9/11 wars & such for people to treat geopolitics with great prejudice, but in recent years the eyes of the people have been being opened as warcrimes are increasingly being livestreamed on social media, making support for one's own country often untenable except for the most unsympathetic people.
The frequency of prejudice against other teams, women & so on within sports culture is certainly a problem, but prejudice also exists within other cultures. In scholar culture, we often see prejudice against people without degrees, against women, against racial minorities, against queers, against heterodoxers & very especially against heterodox queer racial minority women without degrees. Double-blind peer review is intended to prevent this, but only applies to journals & is a work around for, rather than an abolition of the prejudice of the culture. "Sports are only for dumb jocks" is just as much a manifestation of prejudice as "we are the best team even though we keep losing" or "women are bad at everything."
I would like to confess that I used to engage in the prejudice against athletes myself when I was less wise, & I regret this wholeheartedly. It has been more than a third of my life since then & I am now a better person. No one is wrong forever, even if bigots are unwilling to admit it. We all either self-correct or we die within no more than 122 years.
Many people believe prejudice is less harmful if does not result in systemic bias. These people would say that it is okay to be prejudiced against athletes but not black people, because prejudice against the former does not result in systemic bias unlike the prejudice against the latter.
I answer that: the fact that harms are small enough not to result in systemic bias does not make a prejudice any less harmful at an individual level, only at a systemic level. Systemic bias comes from a large number of individual behaviors, especially from powerful individuals. A single nerd supremacist of equal power, whose volition differs only in target of prejudice rather than in willingness to act on prejudice in a given way, does not do more harm than a single white supremacist. Given white supremacists are more influential as a group, they cause more harm as a group, but not necessarily as individuals. When they do cause more harm as individuals, this is due to either 1) greater power, such as leading a country, megacorporation or police force or 2) more will to harm, such as a willingness to commit a hate crime.
Please check out @mxchara if you haven't already seen them, they post great things & are one of the best writers I have ever seen, on par in the beauty of their prose with Friedrich Nietzsche, which I was certainly not expecting from a mastodon account.
I love you all comrades & have a nice day! 😻
#sports #politics #bigotry #racism #transphobia #transrights #philosophy #sociology #humanities #waronscience
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Russ Vought is Destroying American Science (Project 2025)
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Russ Vought is Destroying American Science (Project 2025)
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The #WarOnScience continues to the detriment of the entire nation. The #americandiabetesassociation aka #ADA removed 5 registered members from their annual meeting in New Orleans last Friday for trying to distribute an article about latest funding cuts and changes to approval procedures.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/scientists-ejected-from-diabetes-conference-for-distributing-journal-reprints/
If you disagree with arbitrary funding cuts and political hacks calling the shots on what research will be funded sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/an-open-letter-to-the-american-diabetes-association-shame-on-you
#BillionairesDidThis #TheUnAmericanVotersDidThis #ChristianFundamentalistsDidThis -
The assault on science continues.
Link: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/current-crisis-what-s-happening-science-america
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Yuck, science. Gets in the way of "alternative facts" and other populist hocum.It could “eviscerate investments in fundamental research and in the training of the next generation of scientists and engineers for our nation,” Stassun said.
No shit, Sherlock. After having alienated each and every ally possible, the orange rapist is now going to push the US back into the days before the Age of Enlightenment, where people will have to believe what their king tells them.
I hope that all those USians who still believe that Agent Orange will be slowed down or even halted in november, realize how much time it will cost to repair all the damage he's done so far.
#^https://apnews.com/article/national-science-board-nsf-trump-6a23f3ab1b4c6eb131b4e79d95b3536f
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Yuck, science. Gets in the way of "alternative facts" and other populist hocum.It could “eviscerate investments in fundamental research and in the training of the next generation of scientists and engineers for our nation,” Stassun said.
No shit, Sherlock. After having alienated each and every ally possible, the orange rapist is now going to push the US back into the days before the Age of Enlightenment, where people will have to believe what their king tells them.
I hope that all those USians who still believe that Agent Orange will be slowed down or even halted in november, realize how much time it will cost to repair all the damage he's done so far.
#^https://apnews.com/article/national-science-board-nsf-trump-6a23f3ab1b4c6eb131b4e79d95b3536f
#USpol #AgentOrange #NSGOP #WarOnScience -
Major government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists Noncitizens Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/4lcuw https://s.faithcollapsing.com/bwp9u#nist #science #syndication #trump-administration #war-on-science
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Keep fighting back! The culture warriors have spread themselves too thin (just too much to be frightened of!) and are losing the #WarOnScience. #AcademicSky
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4p2civbp5qvabihjsxaquen2/post/3meuxcyknps2s -
The War on Science, the arts, and academia rages unabated.
Link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/universities-humanities-programs
#Science #WarOnScience #STEM #academia #Idiocracy #ScienceMatters
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It looks like Mauna Loa Observatory data is down.
Is this a technical glitch, or an intentional attack by the science denying disgrace to humanity currently in the White House?
It looks like no new data since Dec. 31st.
https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/
https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2
#co2 #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #science #data #sabotage #WarOnScience #PublicData #MaunaLoa
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It looks like Mauna Loa Observatory data is down.
Is this a technical glitch, or an intentional attack by the science denying disgrace to humanity currently in the White House?
It looks like no new data since Dec. 31st.
https://keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/
https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2
#co2 #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #science #data #sabotage #WarOnScience #PublicData #MaunaLoa
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Lyme disease research at Johns Hopkins in jeopardy due to federal funding delays
CNN / CTV News
December 29, 2025 -
Lyme disease research at Johns Hopkins in jeopardy due to federal funding delays
CNN / CTV News
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Health minister says she worries about U.S. public health decisions harming Canadians
U.S. panel voted to remove universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for infants
CBC News
December 13, 2025
By Benjamin Lopez Steven#Canada #CdnPoli #health #vaccines #TrumpRegime #DisInformation #WarOnScience #AntiVaxxers
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Health minister says she worries about U.S. public health decisions harming Canadians
U.S. panel voted to remove universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for infants
CBC News
December 13, 2025
By Benjamin Lopez Steven#Canada #CdnPoli #health #vaccines #TrumpRegime #DisInformation #WarOnScience #AntiVaxxers
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China operated more than two million drones in 2024, according to #TheEconomist, as quoted by Fareed Zakaria.
Meanwhile Trump severely reduced spending for research, ensuring that the United States will not compete seriously against China for at least the next few years.
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #WarOnScience #tech #politics -
China operated more than two million drones in 2024, according to #TheEconomist, as quoted by Fareed Zakaria.
Meanwhile Trump severely reduced spending for research, ensuring that the United States will not compete seriously against China for at least the next few years.
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Seen elsewhere :
A few years ago, Bill Nye the science guy debated creationist Ken Ham about evolution. The last question was "what would change your mind?"
Bill Nye said "Evidence."
Ken Ham said "Nothing can possibly change my mind about this."
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Think about that.
This also describes US government, businesses, and about half of the population in regards to literally anything.
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It’s not “the US” that has a #warOnScience, @[email protected] It’s TRUMP, who arbitrarily picks what and how much to fund while the GOP Congress sits on its hands. And it’s not just “fewer” — it’s a helluva lot less. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Gran... -
This is one of the many ways that Donald Trump harms the future of the United States: "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine":
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/02/upshot/trump-science-funding-cuts.html
#research #Trump #greed #WarOnScience copy: @renewedresistance #politics -
This is one of the many ways that Donald Trump harms the future of the United States: "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine":
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/02/upshot/trump-science-funding-cuts.html
#research #Trump #greed #WarOnScience copy: @renewedresistance #politics -
“…people from DOGE or its proxies are scrutinizing applications with absolutely devastating consequences. The move amounts to the US willingly conceding global supremacy to competitors like China in biological, social and physical sciences. It is a mind-boggling own-goal.”
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“…people from DOGE or its proxies are scrutinizing applications with absolutely devastating consequences. The move amounts to the US willingly conceding global supremacy to competitors like China in biological, social and physical sciences. It is a mind-boggling own-goal.”
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"The United States once stood as the global beacon of scientific excellence. From the Manhattan Project and Apollo missions to mRNA vaccines, American institutions led the charge in understanding and confronting the planet’s most pressing challenges. But today, that leadership is eroding."
Blame Trump. For example: Trump's "handpicked climate deniers downplay climate risks and are used to justify regulatory rollbacks":
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/climate-change-science-environment-21093301.php
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"The United States once stood as the global beacon of scientific excellence. From the Manhattan Project and Apollo missions to mRNA vaccines, American institutions led the charge in understanding and confronting the planet’s most pressing challenges. But today, that leadership is eroding."
Blame Trump. For example: Trump's "handpicked climate deniers downplay climate risks and are used to justify regulatory rollbacks":
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/climate-change-science-environment-21093301.php
#WarOnScience #politics copy: @renewedresistance -
It would be hyperbole to call this the end of science, but it is a #waronscience, because it dismantles the system of funding science that worked well in favor of one based on right-wing ideology, political patronage, and oligopoly that will work poorly.
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#LawrenceKrauss' "War on #Science" #book is still a joke that ignores the threats from #Republicans
#RichardDawkins, #JerryCoyne, #JordanPeterson, Lawrence Krauss, and others wrote a book about the "#waronscience"... that completely ignores actual threats like Trump and the #GOP.
Now that the book is out, let's recap why the #authors are helping #authoritarians rather than using their prominent platforms for good
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A good article on Trump's war on science. The graphs don't lie.
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/nih-the-quiet-engine-of-science-is
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"A public letter from NASA employees on Monday urges leaders of the space agency not to carry out deep cuts sought by the Trump administration: 'We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement and efficient use of public resources'.”:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/science/nasa-formal-dissent-letter-trump.html
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Bill Nye is a treasure. How he manages to avoid exploding in the face of such incredible nonsense is proof of things Science can't explain...
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In the For All Mankind timeline they'd be a season about nudging 3IATLAS into a Mars impact and kickstart the Terraforming.
In ours, Trump could be defunding the Martian satellites that could take a look at the interstellar visitor as it passes, because 'Fuck Science' is what the voters want apparently....
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"The grant cancellations, Young concludes, "Arise from the NIH’s newly minted war against undefined concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion and gender identity, that has expanded to include vaccine hesitancy, COVID, influencing public opinion and climate change." The "undefined" aspect plays a key part in his reasoning. Referring to DEI, he writes, "No one has ever defined it to this Court—and this Court has asked multiple times." It's not defined in Trump's executive order that launched the "newly minted war," and Young found that administrators within the NIH issued multiple documents that attempted to define it, not all of which were consistent with each other, and in some cases seemed to use circular reasoning.
He also noted that the officials who sent these memos had a tendency to resign shortly afterward, writing, "it is not lost on the Court that oftentimes people vote with their feet."
