Far-right governments seek to cut billions of euros from research in Europe
Far-right governments seek to cut billions of euros from research in Europe
Anti-immigration parties are pushing policies that are hostile or indifferent towards science.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46047655
Is this guy cosplaying as Trump?
Stupid people are easier to control.
These idiots would rather pay mercenaries to do pushback in the mediteranea than fund universities to make our countries actually better.
Brought upon by idiotic voters (easily manipulated or egoistic or short-sighted) and non-voters who shirked their duty 👍 Even some researchers just voted for the conservatives.
Can't forget the self-serving politicians who contributed a lot to the problem by not caring for the people but their rich friends instead (and still getting re-elected by idiotic voters). It's a vicious cycle.
What would one expect from this kind of politician. He has other priorities: After Israel's Knesset approved final voting for two bills aimed at blocking UNRWA in areas under Israeli control, Geert Wilders congratulated the Jewish state in a Tuesday post on X/Twitter: 'Well done Israel. Terrorists are terrorists, whatever their disguise.'
Butthead, is that you?
That looks like an AI rendition of a Trump wannabe.
that will be a dumb fall for europe, but funny nonetheless
Conservatives just have no idea how research is done and think they can tell people what to research. The absurdity is that no scientific be can tell someone to research something that hasn’t been discovered yet!
That's not exactly how it works.
Most research is based around understanding the universe. Often called Blue Sky research (Why is the sky blue?).
Now that's a very broad category, so you break things down into something more manageable. Like the lifecycle of a specific insect, or the behavior of crowds in shopping centers during holidays.
The point being that you can absolutely tell someone what to research.
Now, you are correct in that you cannot dictate the results of research.
Except that you can, and it's the second type of research.
Goal oriented research, or maybe practical research? starts with a goal or a problem. Like a disease. The goal is a cure or prevention. How you get to that point doesn't matter as long as you do, but in practice the way to meeting that goal is going to be more research centered around understanding the goal or problem.
Now, all that said, pure Blue Sky research has a guaranteed return on investment. NASA estimates that their return is 3-1. 3 dollars back for every dollar of their budget.
All that said, there is no ethical reason to constrain research topics or even to reduce spending on science.
The far right are a bunch of crooks and Russian agents. It's not that they think we can progress as a society without spending money on research. It's that they're being paid to make sure western society collapses.
Wilders, Le Pen, Farage, whatever the knobheads in the AfD are called. They've all been found to receive funding from Russia. It's not that they're dumb enough to think this is a good idea, they're just evil enough to profit from it.
What's up with this AI-lookin motherfucker?
There is a German word for people like that: Backpfeifengesicht. (meaning a face made for being slapped)
I'm wondering if there is a Dutch equivalent to this word.
As a Duchie, he's quite real, unfortunately