Fear, intimidation, indoctrination, repetition, gaslighting, creating false narratives, controlled rewards and punishments, information control, social shaming and isolation. These are all from the KGB handbook and they are all being used by our current administration against the American people.
Properly chilling. Even more so because to most people, restricting/cancelling science funding seems like a nich issue. IMO in this anti-expert era, we need to find allies to help us make the case for why funding science is vital, including explaining e.g. why China invests heavily
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too little too late. now we're all fucked.