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Even this short-term disruption will have long-term effects. A less allied, more transactional world is only good for the biggest, richest players over time.
What a bunch or horse hockey. If you cut all the science for the DIE initiatives and then cut the science that seems to collect a lot of bogus data, then cut the science that is done that is not reproducible and finally cut all the science done on the palsy-wellsy basis you have cut almost all of TheScienceTM. What is wrong with that? Why should we be supporting bogus science with taxpayer money? BTW, if we fund it, isn’t it ours? Why are we granting forever patents to the scientists on our dime? Huston, we are having problems!
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I'm not sure that follows. It depends what follows. There are plenty of government funded scientists who just push regime friendly narratives. Remember that there's no bigger, richer player than the regime.
If this is a severing of science from the state (it's not, btw), that wouldn't be the worst thing.
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There are plenty of people in any organization that push the narrative. You know, that whole baby/bath water thingy.
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For sure. It's just not clear to me why your specific concerns would be worse with cuts to federal science spending.
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My very specific concern is I work with highly sensitive defense research, which they want, but this activity has and will continue to hurt activity. There was over a year where the Air Force's hypersonics program lead was vacant due to Tuberville's BS. We lost faculty, post-doc and PhD researchers because we couldn't bring them on. Now they cut travel budget and we don't meet about much of this stuff over networks.
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I'm definitely not going to argue that they haven't made a mess of all of that sort of stuff. I have sufficient exposure to know you're describing a widespread issue.
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It will cost us. Also, great researera are going to the UK and France.