US mid-term elections: 3 ways science is on the line

US "democracy" has become such a clown show that English and Australian tourists are booking specialized election experience tours & disrupting canvasses.

https://www.politicaltours.com/tours/usa-midterm-elections/

Previously in Nature: "Please don't publish anything that would undermine the liberal worldview"

Advancing knowledge and understanding is a fundamental public good. In some cases, however, potential harms to the populations studied may outweigh the benefit of publication. [..] Harms can also arise indirectly, as a result of the publication of a research project or a piece of scholarly communication – for instance, stigmatization of a vulnerable human group or potential use of the results of research for unintended purposes (e.g., public policies that undermine human rights or misuse of information to threaten public health). - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32595083

Scientific American: "Don't even study such topics"

For another thing, scientists must do some soul-searching about why they are so motivated to look for evidence that traits like intelligence or propensity to violence are written in our genes, or that they would be different for people in different racial groups. Of all the bits of truth they could discover about our complex world, why this focus? - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-must-not-...

Sweden: "You will be suspended if you even accidentally find the wrong results"

After studying more than 3,000 convictions in rape cases passed between 2000 and 2015, researchers found that most of the convicted perpetrators are immigrants. [..] Kristina Sundquist and her colleagues are suspected of violating good research practice. Scientists are also criticized for insufficient evaluation as they failed to indicate how their research should ‘reduce exclusion and improve integration’. - https://news.tvs-24.com/world/1714.html

This is embarrassing. Why not just come out against democracy? At least that would be honest

Nature used to be a science publication.

Now that it is a political rag, we should stop considering any of it's "science" contents to be valid science, since we now know that they are primarily interested in politics.