[ExI] COVID-19

[William Flynn Wallace]

I certainly have not paid close attention to this administration's support
of science, but I have noticed several things they have done with which I
disagree, some environmental.  And don't we all know that the Repubs hate
science?

So maybe Scientific American just got so frustrated they voted to trash a
no-politics of longstanding.  I have not seen a reason yet that would make
me lose any respect for S.A.  I think all the science academies etc. should
take a stand against any administration that holds science back in any
way.

Does anyone know that any of these organizations have lobbyists?  If they
don't, then maybe it's time they did.

bill w

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 2:28 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 9:53 AM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> > *That's because one of those numbers is a good-faith attempt to measure
>> an actual natural phenomenon, and one of them is barely-disguised political
>> propaganda generated by counting every warm body they could find a cold
>> virus in. *
>>
>
> So the journals Nature and Science and Physical Review Letters and the
> New England Journal of Medicine are all just commie propaganda and if you
> want real science look to Fox News and InfoWorld, and Sean Hannity and Alex
> Jones. Gee, I'm nostalgic for the good old days when Extropians were
> science people not right wing ideologues who do whatever is necessary to
> make the facts fit their politics. I prefer to change my politics when it
> doesn't fit the facts because it's rather more difficult to change the
> facts to fit my politics.
>
> I have a serious question that I really want an answer to because it
> worries me, is this list turning into crackpot central?
>
>  John K Clark
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