1. It's Fustilarian Friday and today's drop is the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order.
My read is that this is designed to (1) protect far-fringe figures such as the antvaxxers now heading our health agencies, and (2) kneecap efforts to use scientific evidence in regulatory policy.
My read is that this is designed to (1) protect far-fringe figures such as the antvaxxers now heading our health agencies, and (2) kneecap efforts to use scientific evidence in regulatory policy.
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Honestly wouldn't be surprised if they tried that at some point - these idiots are dumb enough to be goldbugs.
Though, hey, they're bringing back all the other trappings of the gilded age, why not insanely bad and destructive monetary policy too?
"Hey, you remember how we used to have insanely destructive banking panics that would *completely* destroy the economy every few years for essentially no reason whatsoever? What if we went back to that?"
The metascience community could tout this as a win and fundraise off of it, cementing their legacy as useful idiots.
Or they can side with science, boldly speaking out about the bad-faith ways the Trump administration is co-opting their language and momentum.
Section 4(e) - "Highly Unlikely" Scenarios:
This provision appears designed to exclude precautionary analysis from policy-making.
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https://substack.com/@jonathanrob1985/p-162028815
Most scientists have no idea how bad things are in top-down EBM right now - it's complete pseudoscience.
“have we behaved like mad scientists who have let the virus of critique out of the confines of their laboratories and cannot do anything now to limit its deleterious effects; it mutates now, gnawing everything up even the vessels in which it is contained?”
#Orwell1984
"Away, you scullion! you rampallion! you fustilarian! I’ll tickle your catastrophe."
– William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 2, Act 2, Scene 1.
I wish the scullion would very much away!
It didn't work to suck up to Trump's science advisor after he gave a gaslighting speech about "Gold Standard Science" that included an unhinged rant against diversity, equity, and inclusion.
https://bsky.app/profile/lymescience.org/post/3lpn7elhzys2b
Everything in gold.
Dude has a very weird obsession with this.