"Intellectual honesty is a crime in any authoritarian country." - George Orwell
Maybe being a considered a criminal is good when the cause is right, just and moral. Stand for the common good, #standupforscience.
250 years ago, those we call patriots we considered traitors to the king.
Mark Dowhy
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org has updated their charts on the state of democracy historically and today. Definitely some worldwide backsliding of late, but it’s arguably within the kinds of fluctuation we’ve seen in the past, on top of general improvement.
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#OMB #Vought #StandUpForScience #Science #SaveScience
Classification by Lührmann et al. (2018) based on expert estimates by V-Dem.
Is America repeating authoritarian history? Harvard historian discusses how current attacks on American science map cleanly onto dangerous patterns of the past. We aren't just fighting for the planet; we're fighting for the truth. Watch the new episode! @fisherdanar.bsky.social
Life is actually simple, fundamentally. Look around at all that is not human. It is we who have constructed complexity of it. Made it difficult, arduous, even self-destructive. Almost as if an emergent property of our evolution. Is it? Why?
Something to ponder.🤔
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Sean Carroll
tAn sUiT ✨⚡️🇺🇸 New York has spoken.💙🔥✌🏽
"Intellectual honesty is a crime in any authoritarian country." - George Orwell
Maybe being a considered a criminal is good when the cause is right, just and moral. Stand for the common good, #standupforscience.
250 years ago, those we call patriots we considered traitors to the king.
"Stop Vought. Save Science." - A call to action with Dr. Colette Delawalla of @standupforscience.net
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90% of Democratic voters and 63% of all voters support Medicare for All.
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Is it morally permissible to break the law to share academic research? In our new paper @freeandequal.bsky.social, Himani Bhakuni and I explore this question and frame illegal sharing of academic research as a form of unilateral remedial action. Link below: freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/2...
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Mark Dowhy
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How can we measure the state of democracy around the world?
Measuring democracy is challenging. It has many dimensions, and researchers assess them in different ways. No single source of data captures the full picture, so we present data from several of them.
