More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science
More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/35321653
Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned Americans of ‘real danger in this moment’
To who? Republican voters who will never see this in their feed, or already hate scientists as elites out to get them? Government leaders who openly hate them, either for personal gain or real pseudoscientific beliefs? Opposition who can't do anything about it, and might not if they could anyway? Profit-obsessed news outlets who would never feature something as boring as this unless it's already something their audience wants to hear?
It's too late.
I swear, organizations like this are communicating like it's 1950 as the entire country sleepwalks into an information dystopia. They need to be loud, sensationalist if not outright propagandist, get on podcasts and Fox, game commercial social media and otherwise shun it if they want to change any minds.
It's still very important to take a stand and speak out. Even if that in itself is not enough, it's still necessary. Putting out this statement doesn't mean that's the only thing they're doing. When fighting for a cause you have to state your principles, call out the problems you see, and motivate others to join you in the cause.
“The nation’s scientific enterprise is being annihilated and the silence of too many of our scientific leaders is only making the ongoing catastrophe worse,” said Dr Robert Steinbrook, health research group director at Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group. “The ‘SOS’ signal from 1,900 scientists must be a wake-up call for our leading scientific and medical organizations to show courage and speak out at this critical moment,” he said. “If scientists and scientific and medical organizations will not forcefully speak out in defense of science and public health, who will? There is no alternative.”
Responses in this thread dismissing people for speaking out is worse than doing nothing. If you aren't going to do something, at least don't disparage others for doing what they can.
People ain't gonna do shit until it either kills their pocketbooks or they start dying themselves, in large numbers. And then they'll find a way to blame it on those damn elite scientists.
“If they’re soo smart, why didn’t they WARN us?”
Cool. How many letters did it take to stop Hitler? I forget.
Was it a letter, or are they just testing a hypothesis?
Sale on Scientists!
Leave the US, now, while you're still allowed to.
The US is done for, it's an ex super power, I'm guessing Europe will take over that banner soon
It's not quite over yet. You go on with that attitude and you won't have any options left.
