XPost: alt.conspiracy, misc.survivalism, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Governor Swill wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:   
      
   > On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 00:03:32 -0000 (UTC), pothead   
   >  wrote:   
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   >   
   >>These days science is driven by money and profit.   
      
   Some science, yes. Most of science? Money is needed to do   
   research; profit supplies that money. And it's profit from   
   industry, endowments, and the government.   
      
   > The hypocrisy from conservatives never ceases to amaze.  On one   
   > hand, pure research done simply for the gain of knowledge isn't   
   > worth investing in.  Otoh, research done purely for profit is   
   > bad.   
   >   
   > Make up your mind.   
      
   Trolls use two-facedness as a trolling tactic.   
      
   >>It's no longer Marie and Peter Curie working with radium in   
   >>their garage.  It has become corrupt.   
      
   With the word "it", crockpot tries to tar all scientific endeavor   
   with the same brush.   
      
   > So any time anybody does something for a profit, they're corrupt?   
   >   
   >>Not everyone of course but enough to make a difference.   
   >>   
   >>The goal is to keep the funding, grant alive to prolong the income of   
   >>the scientists.   
      
   By, get this, submitting research ideas to be reviewed by   
   committees and peers, who then decide if a project is worthy   
   of funding.   
      
   > Yet the Trump administration has been canceling science and   
   > research funds rather spectacularly for months now.   
   >   
   >>Peer reviews have become a joke. It's more of a popularity   
   >>contest than a real peer review.   
      
   Complete bullshit.   
      
   > More bullshit from a brainwashed rightist lacking the ability to   
   > read a peer reviewed research paper.   
   >   
   >>Look at the various scientists who spoke about the dangers of   
   >>the COVID vaccine, the alternative treatments, what the medical   
   >>establishment at the time was doing wrong and were attacked for   
   >>it.   
      
   What legitimate science was attacked?   
      
   >>Guess what?  Some of them turned out to be correct.   
      
   Such as... ?   
      
   > Funny how hindsight is 20/20.   
   >   
   >>The system has become a mess.   
   >   
   > No, it hasn't.  What's become a mess is the propganda, distortions and   
   > outright lies pushed by the right in the interest of preventing public   
   > education.   
   >   
   > Education is to conservatives what kryptonite is to Superman.   
      
   It's not just education. It's industry pressure to preserve their   
   production (e.g. the tobacco companies and the oil industry) and   
   political pressure to avoid acknowledging the truth about climate,   
   pollution, gender, pandemics, social problems, ....   
      
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