Many of us in academic science will default to “business as usual” as our response. We will feel that our power should be used to maintain a semblance of normalcy. To live to fight another day.
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Got any good ideas of what, other than lawsuits and protests? You're a leader in the community after all. I'm at a loss for what to do, especially from liberal NYC.
"Scream" at your Dem reps to stop sitting by and watching. They might not be doing the bag things but they also don't seem to be very creative in stopping them.
I get it and agree, but the list of possible actions would be helpful. I’ve started donating to groups helping immigrants. I'm engaging deniers by explaining science’s benefits and how they’ve been misled about waste and fraud. What else could I/scientist do?
I am reluctant to tell very smart people what to do when there are so many angles. However, I was motivated today by the attacks on NIH and by thinking about our professional behavior within the NIH-funding sphere.
I agree with this with the caveat that for many people "business as usual" means defying their supervisors and directives from agencies to continue doing work that is supposedly now prohibited; I think for a lot of people the default is to stop doing a lot of good things they were doing.
It is hard to understand that holding fast to the things we hold most dear, our deeper professional beliefs, used unchanged are taking action on the part of the regime.
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