Political Silencing of Science
A database, the Silencing Science Tracker, follows political efforts to silence science. [columbiaclimatelaw.com] It is continually being updated. An article in Scientific American comments<:
<blockquote>Journalists and whistle-blowers have exposed some alarming moves by federal and state governments to restrict science research, education or communication. But the Silencing Science Tracker, updated continuously online, shows just how pervasive the attempts have been since the 2016 U.S. national elections. Tactics run the gamut from censorship and funding cuts to destroying data, twisting studies and removing scientists from advisory boards (main graphic).
Some deeds have been “really outrageous,” says Romany Webb, a senior fellow at Columbia Law School, who runs the site. Actions by states have been rising recently (map), especially to manipulate education. “It's concerning to imagine a generation of schoolkids not learning basic principles such as climate change and evolution,” Webb says. But she thinks committee leaders now in the House of Representatives are ready to push back on federal abuses, which she finds “very encouraging.”</blockquote>
[scientificamerican.com]
It is discouraging to see that politicians, mostly republicans, are intensifying efforts to hide and silence inconvenient science.
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Interesting tracker, but not going to a conference is silencing science seems like a stretch to me.
MommaDaggs
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Apr 23, 2019
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@Germaine if that is the case then it should display as stopped from speaking at a conference... I see that differently from not attending... I have attended multiple conferences and depending on the subject the info is hit and miss....
Imagine my surprise to learn the pre-civil war Democrats were right.
It's pretty clear that neither party particularly cares for science.
Republicans don't really care for evolution. Democrats don't really care for natural laws.
CodeNameZebra
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Apr 23, 2019
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@Germaine the parties have never truely switched. Ideology has evolved but past 1860 you don't really a significantly hard ideology switch.
The direct actions of politicians for racist reasons really didn't start till around that point. Which was actually the birth of identity politics in a way.
Natural law is paw observed naturally occurring in nature. Which some are dictated in the Constitution but largely it's a framing document a dictation of all laws and regulations
I get you may be reaching for a drawn out explanation of natural law.
i don't have time explain the laws of nature and how most modern philosophy is derived from them.
I would suggest starting with Kant' s metaphysics of morals to start to explain the relationship of the natural laws we perceive and how that affects the idea of law.
That's not "misinformed." There's a big difference between sex and gender, to begin. XY individuals (genetically male) with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, for example, are female to all intents and social purposes (save for lack of uterus and ovaries). They often grow up thinking they are XX until they have no menarche. They have breasts. Their orientation is toward men. They feel intensely feminine, and look it. And not in some drag queen way. Their gender is female.
There's nothing to be gained by telling them that because of the XY they are "really" men. They aren't "really" anything in "normal" human culture. Socially and empirically they are women. That is their gender. Here one ignores the genetic sex. That's the kind of problems physicians face. You don't read about it in the Bible.
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