• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    They don’t just kill science: that’s inconvenient and dumb but it can be put on pause fairly safely.

    In this case, they’re putting public health in grave danger. That will turn them into literal mass-murderer if a new pandemic takes hold.

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      5 months ago

      I think they liked the results of the pandemic, they want to cause another one. First term I could blame it on incompetence, but this time it’s very intentional.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      5 months ago

      Science is a tool.

      20th century facists used eugenics (which was considered scientifically sound at the time) to argue for genociding disabled people.

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        5 months ago

        What’s crazy to me is that eugenics is largely sound… It’s literally a forbidden branch of science not because it’s unscientific, but because our species can’t be trusted with it

        So much so that it becomes worthless. Elon Musk is doing his best to spread his genetics, even inappropriately offering up his sperm to female employees… He thinks he’s one of humanities best and brightest. The kedamine addicted failed programmer turned conman, a guy so insecure he faked being good at video games and has created nothing himself, thinks his genes need to be spread far and wide

        We are animals, we can indeed be bred for traits like animals, but we’re so bad at evaluating ourselves we literally cannot use this branch of science

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          5 months ago

          It was an extremist interpretation of mendelian genetics. But it was a near dominant view among geneticists at the time.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      And you think they care?

      Killing off science will ruin the country, it will even ruin the military as it depends in the results of science

      They don’t care.

      They want their theocracy, that’s all. If millions die, then that is a sacrifice they’re willing to make, as long as it isn’t them