US’ Office of Management And Budget head Russ Vought is trying to push through changes that will allow the Trump administration extensive control over how science is done in this country, leaving it open to graft, mismanagement, and bias. This blog post gives some context on what’s happening, links to an extensive discussion of the changes being proposed, and helps explain how you can help.
Trump's Russ Vought Is Trying To Kill American Science. We Can Try To Stop Him,
https://www.patreon.com/posts/159681356?pr=true
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Corvidae@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 107d
Russel Vought has embraced the label Christian Nationalist. It's not a surprise they want veto power over anything that might go against doctrine.
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 107d
This has NOTHING to do With China "Eating Our Lunch" in Science and Technology!
WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 107d
Of course.
Science can provide benefit for humanity as a whole, and the fascist project cannot allow that - benefit must be reserved for the wealthy and empowered few, so that the rest of humanity is relegated to being nothing more than resources to be exploited.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 107d
Wait... Not the onion?
JL4575@piefed.social · 10 pts · 107d
Not the onion. Here’s another blog discussing the same proposed rule: https://news.chanda.science/archive/its-the-end-of-american-science-as-we-know-it/
TingoTenga@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 107d
With a Patreon?
JL4575@piefed.social · 4 pts · 106d
The post is free to access and written by a disabled lawyer that works on disability issues. No need to subscribe. But if you’d rather not give traffic, the other blog I linked to in the comments covers the same territory.