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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's a very big concern. It's hard to want to do scientific work when there's an administration hostile to everything you do, including saying g that it's made up.

[–] Fortunafors@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I dunno how is research going on the US those days but here in my country, academy and science been full of shit since a long time ago, bureaucracy and money is all that matters now and seems like nobody will change that

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There's certainly some of that that the research community has been trying to fight back on with variable success. We're better than most countries but worse than a few, with space for improvement.

Active hostility towards science is very different from making improvements in the areas of concern.

[–] Ekybio@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Fascists are anti-empiricists by design, because their ideology is opposed to the truth about our world. None of their claims hold up to actual scrutiny, so they have to create "alternative facts" in order to trick others into thinking like them.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

could you imagine the brain drain if other countries started actively recruiting anyone with a hard science or math PhD in the next few years.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

A friend of mine works at a research lab here in Oslo, Norway, and says the number of US applicants have already skyrocketed.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They will discredit science and technology and further create hatred toward the intelligentsia while using tech and science to do so.

Also see the Khmer Rouge and their genocide

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge#Education

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism#Democratic_Kampuchea