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Karen's avatar

Caroline Kennedy warned us but now- no one can't stop this Trump train that is on a runaway track to destroy all of our scientific, medical and technological infrastructure.

Jerry Goff's avatar

It's important to say we are losing black congress representatives not just Democratic representatives. This is a rebirth of Jim Crow.

Science Curmudgeon's avatar

tRump is personally responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths due to killing USAID. That death count will become millions before he is out of office.

Science Curmudgeon's avatar

How do we recreate the concept of non-partisan independence of federal institutions? Is that even possible?

Jerry Goff's avatar

Are we headed down the road to South Africa's white nationalist society?

<Mary L. Tabor>'s avatar

Then, wouldn't these rulings by the Supreme Court essentially eliminate the force and power of the Supreme Court? In other words, isn't the majority of the Court, in fact, eliminating its own influence?

DeLys Evans's avatar

Katie, will you please do an update on the Good and Pretti killings? They’re getting lost in the static.

JacquelineG's avatar

From the Writer’s Cabin Substack gave a good discussion of the recent attempted Trump shooting.

Science Curmudgeon's avatar

Information speed has a risk. Consider groundhog holes or prairie dog colonies. They are the bane of galloping horses. If a wolf pack gets a horse to run through a cluster of holes and tunnels, a broken leg and easy meal follow. Internet opinion harvesters are like a wolf pack in that respect.

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tRump can afford the best plastic surgeons on the planet. It was a superficial wound. It healed very well. Medical success!

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Never forget the positive feedback algorithms built into social media platforms. It will amplify confirmation bias and thus story volume.

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Has anyone heard about the Tea Party recently? MAGA will go the same way - just fade out with the onset of the next partisan disease.

Science Curmudgeon's avatar

How do we disentangle suppressing the Democratic vote from suppressing the minority vote? Correlation is not causation.

Science Curmudgeon's avatar

From a tombstone in Pennsylvania:

The Quality of Ideas is the Foundation of True Authority

How do we protect the quality of ideas in the age of AI enhanced social media?

The scientific method is noisy and slow and requires multiple independent measurement based confirmations. Conspiracy theories have no such restraint. They are like intellectual cancers and social media gives them immediate metastatic connectivity.

Sherri Renée  Ozcomert's avatar

Thank you, Dr. Havers for speaking out. Please keep up the great work you do. I’m in ATL too, we truly appreciate you and those who are doing this work.

Donna Rogers's avatar

I’m in Texas. Hispanic districts are being gerrymandered here as well.