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A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding.
One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle,” explains how the move would’ve stifled that breakthrough.
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-science-grants-russell-vought-omb?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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As I've scrolled across this a few times, each time it slows with just the top of Russ's pellet dome and the design graphic, and my brain thought it was Zorg from 'The Fifth Element' before I centered it.
@ProPublica Next, we’ll be hearing of witch trials for scientists and researchers. It’s time for scientists to take their research elsewhere. ✌️❤️🇨🇦
It's not "good science" if it doesn't benefit a political contributor to the president. If it's not good science, the govt won't subsidize or pay for it. Thank you for attention to this matter.
@ProPublica 😱 More destruction of knowledge work by the fascists….Fu..!!!!!!!!!
@ProPublica That's exactly what happened to the Scientific era of Islam, when the "religious elite" became dogmatic legalistic fanatics.
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