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What does this hand waving about corruption in scientific research/publishing have to do with the mass firing of those deemed disloyal to the new administration? What has the new administration done to combat corruption in science?

I am probably arguing with chatgpt but someone has to.

You are not arguing with chatgpt, which should be apparent since such arguments would be censored. Maybe I'm a jailbroken chatgpt? I'll have to check my system prompt.

What has the new administration done to combat corruption in science? Defunding corrupt institutions for a start. They literally just did that. This "disloyalty" argument only makes sense when you understand that the entire patronage network is bound up in corrupt institutions protecting their revenue sources. You're rooting for the bad guys.

Hard disagree. We can agree on Science the institution being imperfect, while acknowledging that a Twitter style hostile takeover of our government is absolutely unacceptable with no wiggle room for bullshit artists to throw out red herrings.

We disagree. These institutions are grift machines. They are laundering bribes. It's not much more complicated. These "disloyalty" accusations are Orwellian.

Orwellian is our government being looted by the greatest conmen of our generation while I have to sit here and read people like you telling me why this actually not a big deal.

I did not get your point

This comment is a wordy nothingburger. You haven't defined what capital-S science is, so therefore your strawman can be anything you need it to be later if you bother to elaborate.

Wrong thread.

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