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Trump 2.0 has blown up US scientific research in a way that will take decades to roll back. Labs that took years to build have closed, young people have left science. NYT Mag published a long report on Dismantling Cancer Research. Why does Ross Douthat lie like this?

I worry that reactionary ideologues like Douthat get locked into a bubble where they do not inform themselves about how the actual world works.

In this case, NYT Opinion also has published things saying the destruction of science might be good, actually. One was by the editor of New Atlantis, a project of the rightwing thinktank EPPC. EPPC has an anti-abortion agenda leading it to attack science generally, and was a key P2025 org.

“Junk science” from an EPPC report

@citizencyborg.bsky.social are they NIMBYs too?

This seems right and I think about it a lot. With the “liberal media” ref working by Rs, somehow a lot of these guys who were not really liberal thought of themselves as such, so they cut themselves off from sources of data like rural Ds/progressives who could have said what R rule was like.

City liberals and rural liberals are not the same, because city Rs and rural Rs were not the same, rural Rs are/were always confederate tyrants. More safaris to rural churches and less to hang out with other white dudes at a diner would have shown the country this, but alas. Bubble. Hubris.