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21 sats \ 17 replies \ @Undisciplined 31 May \ on: Trump’s assault on science will have dire consequences econ
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.
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.
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I'm highly skeptical of both of those claims.