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Ex-NIH Director Says Trump Silenced Him, Others A former director of the National Institutes of Health—who resigned in February—told CBS’s 60 Minutes that working at the agency became “untenable” after President Donald Trump started his second term...

Like “every other scientist, I was not allowed to speak in any kind of scientific meeting or public setting,” Francis Collins, a geneticist who had worked for the biomedical research agency since the 1990s, said during an episode that aired Sunday.

Least surprising news ever.

So how long before the the military snaps and turfs out its incompetent, juvenile leaders? This level of incompetence and petulance is simply unsustainable.

Study: Conservatives Hate Science (All Of It) YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)

Turns out contemporary conservatives hate all of science. Being ignorant is now a tribal identity marker for them.

In the least surprising news of the day the Trump regime fakes evidence to justify their treatment of a person.

The “Skeptics” Are Crashing Out HARD YouTube video by Genetically Modified Skeptic

That moment when you find sceptical figures you once respected think “woke ideology” is a far bigger threat to science than the right wing extremists in the Trump Administration.

I went crazy ages ago, and now I just watch the train run off the bridge for the dark side of the moon.

Not a few Christian Nationalists have been vocal in calling for the repealing of the 19th Amendment. This is one way to achieve something like that. Gotta stop those handmaidens voting.

exhibits A and B in how lying all the time makes you stupid

Making the Chinese look like the good guys and adults in the room isn’t hard when you’re dealing with couch boy, admittedly.

Exactly. Remember, he’s a corrupt stupid conman and convicted felon. There’s no Machiavellian plans here. He’s just behaving like he always has in the business world.

Now that those tariffs have been reversed or paused, are we now back in the emasculated free-trade wilderness? Curious minds want to know.

Just so long as Temu Trump loses the election. Conservative parties worldwide since Trump have pivoted hard right and the last thing I want is for Australia to be ruled by Murdoch / Rinehart sock puppets doing their best to Make Australia Great Again.

The more she lies the smaller her nose gets and the larger her cross grows. It’s like an inverse Pinocchio of the far right.

The gestapo allusions can be taken as given.

“In derelict sidings the poppies entwine, with cattle trucks lying in wait for the next time.”

One would like to think that blatant insider trading by a president would be considered one of the worst enables of malfeasance ever. Alas, it’s just a Tuesday in Trumpistan.

I have no problems with the research as such but we’re not resurrecting dead species. They’re gone forever and misleading hype like this is irritating.

Fundy on fundy fight. I’ll take my small moments of happiness where I can find them.

Away from the political madness; nice short article on respected archaeologist of 1st-10th century CE Palestine / Israel Jodi Magness.

Exactly. Who would come to the U.S. to build a scientific career when future Republican regimes could deport your postdocs and grad students or just make them disappear?

This is true just from a scientific and medical research perspective. Even if the cutback are reversed, goodwill and trust have gone. What young scientist would ever come to the U.S. for research now?

I’m more than happy for every one of the contributors to be cancelled forever. All of them have hosed away whatever good will they once enjoyed.

I’m quite happy for all of them to be cancelled forever, which is a shame because the Blind Watchmaker still remains my favourite evolutionary biology book.

Trump Claims Nazis Treated Jewish Prisoners With “Love” Donald Trump made the unbelievable claim during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Just waiting for the Trumpenführer’s American Jewish supporters to condemn this unreservedly. Any time now.

She’s now made it to the top of my list of Trump administration people I want sent to a supermax for the rest of their lives. In solitary. On prison loaf.

Charlie Kirk lies again. It’s all he can do.

The pathetic trigger control underlines the fact these are cruel morons cosplaying a government.

One third of America is fundamentally broken. It can only be outvoted and outlived.

Tired of the Trumpenführer’s belligerent idiocy? How about a reminder about looming food insecurity?