I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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HE’S A DISGRACE TO THE KENNEDY NAME AND IT’S LEGASY.
An informed society is not easily manipulated so dictators block it…like Trump is doing in the US right now.
And that is why we can't have nice things.
Evolution is real. Not only did it happen it continues to happen. American citizen here with half a degree in Archaeology, would be happy to loan my name to the paper writer
Sir, I believe you are a fraud.
Thin-skinned fatheads have zero humor, intellect, & tolerance is no longer a theory; it’s The Law of Dunces. FFS
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Those academics weren't threatened with deportation, were they?
There's no harm to people, that I know of, from studying or publishing research on evolution, yet many MAGAs are vociferously opposed.
Hugs to all who need one.
bullshit.
This makes our nation uncompetitive and wastes the talents granted to our children. Having parents w money does not equate to the abilities of the child.
MAGA elites send their kids to private schools.
#ELBOWSUP
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Or print on each page, "This would have been a paper on evolution. The author(s) asked for it to be retracted because they feared its publication would endanger their legal status in the United States"?
Hugs back.
It rough here yet I cannot imagine what the daily blows to your democracy and your sanity take since trump stomped in.
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From the woke side, cancelling that Evolution in Mammals considers everything non-binary abnormal and unfit to survive.
From the MAGA side, cancelling it as heresy of the Orange God Religion.
Maga on the other hand are flat out science deniers.
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But Scientific Revolutions are more widely powerful
- can I help you to forge your anger into FIGHTBACK ENERGY...?
Evolution WILL be one such revolution, WHEN it's fully accepted; right now, it's a 'target'. Aero offers a keener edge...
I’m starting with the block of my street that we live on
I’ll compile the information then survey the next block over asking this time for a volunteer to compile the data for their neighborhood and distribute the flyers 1/3
Part of the survey has to do with socioeconomic vulnerability, health issues, social support. I’m trained as a nurse practitioner so I share your concerns.
The survey is also a way for communities barter skills, share equipment, etc.
I think returning to
Actively creating and implementing plans like I’ve described is currently helping me to feel more sane
This was pretty long, but your question was not one to be taken lightly
- until a moment came to re-ignite the flame.
A New Aerodynamics is truly as irrelevant to the world's problems as a New Cosmology was in the year 1514...
“I really don’t believe you natives…” and “That’s not just…that does not” are particularly good examples. It’s called style.
My goal on social media is to develop my own style. I am trying to engage with people because I want to feel connected to others.
In this example, I am trying to make positive statements about intention. I hope this makes sense.
I sure AF would.
How long before saying the name "Charles Darwin" in the states gets you disappeared?
(Contrary to the Nuremberg Principles, may I add.)
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So, privilege has its value!
Disgusting.
The alternative being to be swallowed down the drain by this madness.
I can see a time (soon) when early-career people will publish under a pseudonym and submit encrypted portfolios to tenure & promotion committees, which will meet clandestinely.
First, they undermine the press.
Then they go after the judiciary...
Sounds familiar?
Hopefully the rest of the world have some immunity
Chilling!
For the poorly educated, vulgar and violent MAGAs that elected, and protect Trump is all about creationism. In other words, civilization of men living with dinosaurs. As simple as that!
Never try to rationalize it!
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That we even need this conversation…
Back in the 60’s people knew how to stand up and stand together for an important cause!
I guess they don’t make them like they used to!
What...
WHAT THE FUCK!
If we don’t want to arrive in the same place, we must implement EQUAL REPRESENTATION in GOV’T FOR EVERY VOTE.
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Devolution of 1/2 of America
Peers do not review anonymous authors. Peers ignore anonymous authors.
Print your paper and have a lawyer on hand for your entire department.
Please don’t dumb us down for the morons in temporary roles. Being uneducated or miseducated is THEIR natural state, not ours. 😡
I'm both and they can fuck themselves. Time for reality to make a comeback in the United States.
Resist and fight.
Proof of the existence of God requires? Belief and faith.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objections_to_evolution
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20190418-how-and-why-did-religion-evolve
For the people that don’t have the luxury to speak up, because they’re the ones most presently at risk, the rest of us have an obligation to be louder for them.
I can’t fault their tactical retreat.
Those with more privilege must accept the risk and stand out.
Religious fanatics, reactionarism, ignorance, hate....
I wish Europe and other countries, move fast to give asylum to all those canceled, prosecuted and censored scientists, to saving their work and keep humanity moving forward.
We're appalled...
I'm so sorry...
JD stands for nothing. Or maybe Junior Donald...
He's sofa king horrible!
I call him Vance. Awful creature.
They will be taking hundreds of billions of wealth out of the country and billions of spending with them.
The expensive communities are going to crash with this exit.
The loss of educated, highly intelligent people is something no country can afford.
The human and fiscal flight turns the whole country into Alabama
They are being logical to avoid the chaos of fascism.
Over 10% of our population will flee.
Right here in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 🇨🇦, we have a world-class synchrotron (Canadian Light Source) & VIDO (Vaccine & Infectious Disease Organization) — both on our University campus.
I guess American free speech has to be within the confines of 'regime approved', 'non critical' and 'censored to bias Christian beliefs'.
The search for truth and sciences has no home in America. Such sadness...
Once the people cheered for him to strip rights from trans people and minorities, bigger groups of his enemies were destined to be next. We need to express dissent every day.
Even so, the R attack on science is a terrible threat to progress and health in the USA.
The neo nazi musk has fired the teams supposed to prevent this (on purpose).
Jews voted for Hitler too in Germany. :(
Standing up to intimidation usually works.
The problem is zionism, not fascism. Stop attaching Fascism to whatever you don't like.
The issue here for the authors is also: Is the science worth more to publish and reclaim later or just not publish at all.
publications are one of the main things taken in consideration when granting funds for someone. This article being published without proper acknowledgement would hurt his career more than just delaying it
I've been published under my maiden name and done a shitton of awesome work under my married name.
He'll be ok. Women do it all the time.
ppl need to pay their bills, and without publishing they won't receive grants
also, the scientific community can only properly work with transparency: who's working where, what money is being used, full disclosure
didn't get you just can't figure it out that not everybody can keep going without money
Research in authoritarian and repressive contexts. Bellin et al.
American Political Science Association Report IV 1, 2018
Repressive experiences among China scholars: New evidence from survey data
Greitens & Truex
The China Quarterly 242, 349-375, 2020
you can publish whatever you want under pseudonyms, but it won't count towards the metrics used to give grants (the money most early career researchers need to survive)
losing a publication means early retirement
You're vulnerable but the results are important, then publish, anonymously.
They'll not be funding your type of research anyway.
You'll not be writing grants in custody.
Experience as researcher in Karimov's Uzbekistan
that way you don't lose the product of your work
We’ll show them what We The People means…and they will face justice in courts of law.
They’ve sorely underestimated our anger and our collective action.
Boycotts are the beginning.
Attacks on our institutions, the most vulnerable are unacceptable.
Man. That was 70+ years ago.
They just want to drag us back to a time when white men ruled and the rest of us were over-ruled.
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The opinion of both me and my cat:
You fools only have a few more opportunities to defend what you love. Your friend can go cower in the corner if they want - but know that they are just allowing the fascists to consolidate their grip.
On second thought, maybe do. 🤣
Hope your friend finds a way through all this madness thats going on. Looks to be a mass exodus of scientists.
Where have I heard that before..
To understand this administration, one must understand Hitler. No one understood Hitler better than Dietrich Bonhoeffer. https://youtu.be/813IyB_vt_Q?si=9v3vXRP1-rpxZ8el
Thou shall have false gods before me
Thou shall not bear false witness
That‘s exactly what happens in Germany in the 30s/40s and other authoritarian countries like Russia a few years ago.
That’s a dangerous situation and it‘s getting worse.