Posted on 03/22/2025 4:42:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
At some point, over-politicizing science will lead to the blending of the two disciplines. Unfortunately, politics will prevail.
A recent article in Nature lamented Trump's policy decisions to cut funding for specific government organizations and his call for investigations into studies laden with gender-based language. The scientific elite found these initiatives so unacceptable that some scientists are now threatening to leave the United States -- an act they frame as a protest.
The mere existence of the option to address gender issues in science indicates that efforts to politicize science were already well underway. Nature's outrage at the Trump Administration's actions reinforces this assumption. Trump's push against gender-based language is an act of depoliticization, not an attack on objective science. Pronouns serve as a sign of political allegiance rather than markers of gender identity -- they are not grounded in empirical evidence, and there is nothing 'scientific' about pronouns. Analogous to tagging a protein with a fluorescent marker for identification, scientists have labeled their most politically charged studies with gender terminology. The Left made it remarkably easy to distinguish politically motivated research from genuine scientific inquiry.
Nature also recently published a 'World View' article by Dr. Eric Reinhart. According to his profile on X Dr. Reinhart is a social psychiatrist, political anthropologist, and psychoanalytic clinician. In his article, he asserts:
"The real crisis is not that public health -- which is fundamentally about policies dictating the distribution of resources required to protect human life -- has been politicized. It is that it has not been politicized nearly enough."
A close reading of Dr. Reinhart's essay reveals an intent to encourage scientists to amalgamate the two philosophies -- science and politics -- and advocate radical political positions. This assertion presumes that science -- and the decisions
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Lysenko comes to mind.
when science cannot differentiate the VAST differences between a man and a woman then science is no longer science. true science today must be practiced behind closed doors or to avoid the same treatment true scientist suffered in the dark ages. it’s coming.
Politics trumps everything! Always has always will.
Why is that?
Whoever can answer that 64k question will get a mystery prize!
So long as government money is given for scientific studies, mostly as grants, the results will conform to the desires of the source of the money. Otherwise no money and reduced employment of “scientists.” Scientists is in quotes because they are not truly scientists who produce studies in order to confirm political narratives.
The vast majority of scientists have the ethics of whores in a back alley on a Friday night.
Show them the cash and they will pull out the kneepads.
It’s called $cience.
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