TRUMP'S WAR ON SCIENCE

It appears that the current regime is quite okay with people dying. Preventably, to be sure, but not prevented. If there arent repercussions and push-back now, we may see years of lawsuits after this period is over, followed by jail-sentences. And, I sincerely hope, firing squads for collaborators and quislings. Because medicine and public health cannot be dictated by party aparatchicks and commissars.

From The Guardian: "Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump,"

"The edict, laid down in emails on Friday by Curt Cashour, the VA’s assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, and John Bartrum, a senior adviser to VA secretary Doug Collins, came hours after the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a perspective co-authored by two pulmonologists who work for the VA in Texas."

And:

'The article warned that cancelled contracts, layoffs and a planned staff reduction of 80,000 employees in the nation’s largest integrated healthcare system jeopardizes the health of a million veterans seeking help for conditions linked to toxic exposure – ranging from Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange to veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who developed cancer after being exposed to smoke from piles of flaming toxic waste.

Quote: "As pulmonologists in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), we have been seeing increasing numbers of veterans with chronic bronchitis, pulmonary fibrosis, asthma, and other respiratory conditions," doctors Pavan Ganapathiraju and Rebecca Traylor wrote.'

SOURCE: US veterans agency orders scientists not to publish in journals without clearance

This, naturally, follows Robert F Kennedy Jr spouting nonsense about government scientists being forbidden from publishing in respected medical journals, as well as Trump's acting head of FEMA saying he had never heard of hurricane season. And please remember, according to this administration there is no such thing as climate change.

Look, I'm perfectly willing, as a private individual with no scientific credibility whatsoever, to agree with some chucklehead who volubly insists that climate change is nothing more than a DEI or Chinese hoax -- because I do not want the dumbass to pound my face -- but insisting that doctors and scientists adhere to rigid ideological purity will doom us a society. What's next? Burning witches? A repeat of what happened to Galileo? Blaming ailments on daemons and evil humours?

It's only a matter of time before exorcisms are offered as an alternative.


Oh yeah. We also slashed funding for avian influenza vaccination and covid.
Because "reasons". Woke or something.

I'm also quite amenable to several people dying of horrid diseases, and naturally I have a list, but in a fair world I do not get to decide who, and I damned well resent and am appalled by the idea of the government having that power.



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