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PhD moron asks why no one is talking about NIH cuts
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What kind of scientist do you think work for big pharma, Exxon Mobile or Raytheon? It certainly ain’t leftist scientists.
I'm not surprised that a scientist votes for Trump, I don't think they're some kind of super intelligent superhumans. I'm surprised that a scientist self-describes as a conservative, because being a scientist is about discovering new things, while being a conservative is about everything staying the same.
Or "while being a conservative is about not discovering new things, as it might challenge their status quo"
Mostly just normal people with families trying to make ends meet... Scientists aren't like cartoon mad scientists, my dude, they're just normal people with careers.
Did I say they weren’t normal?
From personal experience working in DoD research, the amount of compartmentalization a lot of those people have drove me insane. I knew quite a few young earth creationists & fake moon landing believers when I was there. I definitely think a lot of those folks think that their military funding is safer under trump, and everyone outside of their field is a "corrupt leftist scientist"