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The EO is cruel and irrational and is something I'm firmly against. It makes sense to not host your conference in the USA for moral reasons. But, on the other
by dragonzooord 10y ago
The EO is cruel and irrational and is something I'm firmly against. It makes sense to not host your conference in the USA for moral reasons.
But, on the other hand, a lot of Americans don't have passports or their employment contracts will only reimburse a number of domestic (non-international) conferences a year. The set of those people who would be excluded probably exceeds the set of attendees from the 7 countries in question. So I'm not convinced it makes sense to do this just from a conference attendance standpoint.
- MagnumOpus 10y ago> a lot of Americans don't have passports [...] set of people who would be excluded Let's keep it real: The contributors to a global science conference are unlikely to be people who don't have passports - and in case that happens, getting passports in the US is as easy as filling in a form and driving down to the local post office. Whereas even getting a business travel visa to the US is a month-long bureaucratic nightmare for 80% of the world's population (basically everyone bar EU, Japan, Korea and AU/NZ/CA).