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> It confirms your political priors while ironically making you feel smug about your scientific knowledge. You are making the same error. Other Republicans (if
by teachrdan 3mo ago
> It confirms your political priors while ironically making you feel smug about your scientific knowledge.
You are making the same error. Other Republicans (if not Trump) indeed criticized government-funded research into the screwworm lifecycle. Denying that the party of the president has been opposed to both science and regulation on principle -- including with this particular crisis -- makes you look naive at best, dishonest at worst.
https://cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2012/04/members-of-congress-defend-frivolous-sounding-research-that-really-pay-off-at-golden-goose-awards/ https://cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2012/04/members-of-congress-...
- timr 3mo agoI'm not arguing that one political team is innocent. When it comes to correctly managing complex scientific problems, all politicians are reliably incompetent.
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- Terretta 3mo ago> but seeing so many people here bend over backwards to blame this on their political enemies, without even a hint of intellectual curiosity… That sentence might have been stronger if you'd written: “but seeing so many people here bend over backwards to blame this on my political enemies, without even a hint of intellectual curiosity…”