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David Sanders
@davidsanderssci.bsky.social

“I really feel as if the administration is engaged in reverse alchemy, and it’s turning America’s scientific gold into lead,” says David Sanders, a sleuth and biologist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.comResearch-integrity sleuths say their work is being ‘twisted’ to undermine scienceSome sleuths fear that the business of cleaning up flawed studies is being weaponized against science itself.
Mark Ungrin
@mark-ungrin.bsky.social

💯 - and importantly, this won't go away by itself. It's the culmination of a decades-long effort to hijack science and turn the funding and reputation over to well-connected cosplayers and hobby researchers who will spew up whatever is politically convenient. Pseudoscience for a pseudotechnocracy.

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social

🧵This looks a lot like the anticipated expansion to the NSF of the roadmap to destroy the NIH laid out by the administration's pseudoscience wing last spring. This is just the start. These people explicitly claim entitlement to control all of science. Thread of what's to come: