An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science

Re:An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science by stevewatson301 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @07:51AM (#33518466)

Razor sharp analysis; the left and the right are both involved in similar policies around "cancellation". As an example, the right wing has expressed disdain and called for a reduction of powers of the FBI[1] in the same way the left has expressed theirs for the police[2].

[1] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-republicans-will-com...

[2] https://time.com/5849495/black-lives-matter-defund-police-de...

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Re:An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science by vibrio on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @08:32AM (#33518735)

Great example- there are more. The far left and the far right are so close they don't even know it. If they stopped seeking "good" and "evil", and hating on principle they'd see the absurdity.

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Re:An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science by origin_path on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:46AM (#33519508)

But defunding the police was never cancel culture, that's a separate thing. Cancel culture refers to the practice of trying to get individuals fired for things they said, or sometimes to try and get customers of a company to abandon that company for the same reasons.

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