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Re:Nature supports Joe Biden for US president by rich_sasha on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:09AM (#24788201)
+1. Had they limited themselves to the critique of Trump, it would be fine. But they actually take the step forward and bathe Biden in glory.

He may be a good guy, all I know is he isn't Trump, and says some of the right things, ahead of an election. This could translate to absolutely anything.

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Re:Nature supports Joe Biden for US president by dekhn on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:22AM (#24788340)
Biden has been a politician for decades. It's not hard to figure out what Biden is.
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Re:Nature supports Joe Biden for US president by rich_sasha on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:05AM (#24789341)
It's very different once you get the top job. And Nature, as a scientific publication, shouldn't be in the business of predicting that.
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Re:Nature supports Joe Biden for US president by dekhn on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:45AM (#24789803)
Politicians don't suddenly change when they're elected president (it's not like the powers of the president would really permit that, either).

Nature, as a scientific publication, is probably one of the best at predicting that, given it's run by scientists, who have deep history in analyzing how policy decisions affect science.

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