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I'm very interested in knowing the strategy behind the ban on mentions of climate change by governments, starting with the US and now also adopted by the Argentine government. 🤔 Any clues to understand what's really going on?

lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/los-r

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LA NACION · Servicio Meteorológico: el Gobierno lo puso en crisis con recortes de presupuesto, despidos y negacionismo climáticoBy Matías Avramow

The Trump regime is requiring ideological compliance from collaborators in other countries, losing all credibility as a nation of science, and becoming more and more like Stalin's Soviet Union.

"Caspar Van den Berg, president of Universities of the Netherlands, which represents 14 universities in the country, said the survey was an example of the deteriorating climate for the freedom of scientific practice in the United States."

nature.com/articles/d41586-025

www.nature.comTrump team ‘survey’ sent to overseas researchers prompts foreign interference fearsThe document asks US-funded scientists in Australia, the UK and the EU to declare links to China or projects on diversity, equity and inclusion.
#USPol#US#Science

"Conservatives began blaming Heritage and Project 2025 for hurting Trump’s election chances. Trump himself repeatedly contended he hadn’t even read Project 2025, claiming on Truth Social that he had “no idea who is behind it.” In an interview with the POLITICO Deep Dive podcast published Saturday, Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita complained that “there was some stuff in there that we were like, ‘Where the hell did that come from?’”

Dans became a sacrificial lamb. Pressured to resign from Heritage, Dans left in a fit of pique at the end of July, and he later criticized LaCivita and campaign co-head Susie Wiles for campaign “malpractice.”

Now Dans, who lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and works as a lawyer and government relations consultant, is letting bygones be bygones and says he’s delighted with the extent to which Project 2025 has, in fact, become the Trump administration’s playbook.

This week, in his first in-depth interview since Trump returned to the presidency, Dans effectively confirmed what Democrats were saying all along and Trump himself denied: There really is almost no difference between Project 2025 and what Trump was planning all along and is now implementing. And if the White House were to call, he’d be glad to get back on the team."

politico.com/news/magazine/202

#Science #MAGA #Trump #Musk

The Trump Admin is #AntiScience

spacenews.com/nasa-closes-offi

"NASA announced March 10 that it was closing the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist; and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The employees of those offices, 23 in total, will be laid off."

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@ScienceScholar
"...Reuters reported... that the CDC is planning to conduct a large study on whether the MMR vaccine is linked to autism. This taxpayer-funded effort would occur despite the fact that decades of research & numerous high-quality studies have already been conducted—and they have consistently disproven or found no connection between the vaccine and autism.

...In Senate hearings, Kennedy refused to say that vaccines do not cause autism."
#RFKjr #antivax #misinformation #antiscience

"Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections"

"Most people don’t know IRIS, as the program is called, but it is the scientific engine of the agency that protects human health and the environment. Its scientists assess the toxicity of chemicals, estimating the amount of each that triggers cancer and other health effects. And these values serve as the independent, nonpartisan basis for the rules, regulations and permits that limit our exposure to toxic chemicals."

#antiscience #science #fascism #premodern #corporatism

propublica.org/article/legisla

ProPublicaIndustry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections
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