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On what planet should “shutdown STEM” be a reasonable position to hold in the middle of a global pandemic where hundreds of thousands or millions of people’s li
by rlanday 6y ago
On what planet should “shutdown STEM” be a reasonable position to hold in the middle of a global pandemic where hundreds of thousands or millions of people’s lives depend on quality STEM research being done in a timely manner?
- epistasis 6y agoSpending one day to learn to restructure STEM to increase its innovation and output is of the utmost reasonableness. If you are not a scientist and did not bother to find out what the day was about, why are you prejudging it?
- rlanday 6y agoThe hashtag is not #RestructureSTEM, it’s #ShutdownSTEM, and he’s apparently had it up for 11 days. In a pandemic killing hundreds of thousands, in all likelihood eventually millions, of people. In my view, that says all I need to know about this person. He’s a raging asshole. This is the same problem, by the way, as the people tweeting #DefundPolice who get upset at people who think they want to abolish the police entirely. The word “defund” means to remove funding for, not to reduce funding for. It’s the height of arrogance to come up with a slogan either intentionally or accidentally using a word to mean something totally different from what it actually means, and then get upset that I am not willing to learn more about a movement that is effectively engaged in trolling.
- epistasis 6y agoYou do not know what the hashtag means, have not bothered to research it, are ignoring somebody telling you what it means. Instead, from a few small characters you are extrapolating a bunch of nonsense that fits your own narrative, rather than seeking the truth. I do not believe that there can be any productive conversation unless you decide to seek truth instead of seeking validation of your preconceived notions.