#republican antiscience

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48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science

48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science

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Severe cuts in science research funding will cause a complex cascade of effects across the United States and the world.

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Top vaccine official resigns from FDA, criticizes RFK Jr. for promoting 'misinformation and lies'

The top vaccine official with the Food and Drug Administration has resigned and criticized the nation's top health official for allowing “mi

“It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” he wrote. … “The ongoing multistate measles outbreak that is particularly severe in Texas reminds us of what happens when confidence in well-established science underlying public health and well-being is undermined,” he wrote.

The measles outbreak, which could go on for months, has now spread to Kansas and Ohio after sickening more than 370 in Texas and New Mexico.

If it hits other unvaccinated communities across the U.S., as may now be the case in Kansas, the outbreak could endure for a year and threaten the nation’s status as having eliminated the local spread of the vaccine-preventable disease, public health experts said.

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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

If you wanted to wreck the U.S. from within, do what the MAGA/white Christian nationalists are doing right now: constrain, defund, and fire the smart people.

The decimation of science in the US, with science being one of the few things at which the US excels, is profoundly dumb.

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Science under Siege | Michael Mann | Skeptical Inquirer Presents

Science has advanced enormously in the past 500 years, guided by experimental tests of theory and practice.  In that same time, science teac

Reason, science, independent thought, political dissent, evidence-based reasoning that drives public policy and in general, academic freedom - it's all under assault by the white Christian nationalists in power.

This ship of fools is helmed by people who forgot to bring an accurate map. In what possible universe are we better off without cancer research?