Here's a fun game: describe your research/interest in a similar way that Fox/Republicans use to describe research. The more misleading it is from the actual research, the better.
I'll start: watch how tired mice get when they get sick
(determine the mechanism of how microbial contact affects host circadian rhythms)
I study how fast pollutants leaking into the ground are neutralized by natural processes involving microorganisms, and whether it's possible to protect drinking water sources from pollution, by introducing the right microorganisms in the right place after an oil spill.
I honestly don't know how to phrase that so it sounds useless.
My company costs the government billions each year for weapons that haven't been used in nearly 80 years. Talk about inefficiency!
Nukes and nuclear nonproliferation.
Shout-out to republican department of energy head Rick Perry who wanted to get rid of the DOE thinking it was just solar panels and windmills. TEXAS MAN THINK GOVERNMENT ENERGY BAD.
Yeah this is fucking awesome, regardless of impact.
I am, however, torn between the idea of roided up hamsters punching each other with boxing gloves and the knowledge of the reality that they probably just ate each other alive so after a certain point it was just animal abuse.
That seems to be so common of a theme in theirs... Testing narcotics on animals to make predictions of how they impact humans is constantly being used as a chilling and watching animals take drugs". The idea that there's solutions to drug use that might be more effective than throw drug users into private prisons to do slave labor seems quite lost on these people.
Someone had to look at these research papers - assuredly more than one - about (in this case) the effects of steroid abuse in teens. They had to understand the gist of that research. Then they had to create a pithy one liner that conveys that gist, albeit arguably dishonestly.
That's way better than "windmills cause cancer" or "migrants are eating pets."
I'm all for the trend of badly summarizing important clinical research, because we can correct that. At least we have a better chance of correcting that than pure lies.
I look forward to watching the federal govt give 5mil to newly formed X Research to determine if Christianity should be taught in school as the one true religion.