The nonsense jujitsu is absurd, but is it sincere? In some cases, it’s difficult to say. In others, it seems more likely that scientific illiteracy serves coverage for remuneration. This week, the Commerce Department has canceled federal support for three initiatives from Princeton University focused on climate research. The reason declared, for one of these programs: “This cooperation agreement promotes exaggerated and incredible climatic threats, contributing to a phenomenon known as” climate anxiety “, which has increased considerably among young Americans.”
Department of Commerce, you are so close! Climate anxiety among young people is certainly something to watch. Tell them to close their eyes and stick their fingers in their ears while the world burns is probably not the best way to solve it. If you think their climatic stress is bad now, wait for half Miami to be underwater.
There are two important parts of broader context here. The first is that Donald Trump does not believe in climate change, and therefore his administration proceeds as if it did not exist. The second is that the president of Princeton University, Christopher Eisenguber, had the audacity of suggest that the federal government does not regularly shake university institutions under the guise of the cessation of anti -Semitism. Two weeks later, the Trump administration suspended dozens of research subsidies in Princeton totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. And now, “climate anxiety”.
All this is in the context of a government whose main health officials are Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And Mehmet OzTwo men who, in various degrees, have built their careers to peddle a non -scientific malarch. The Trump administration has clearly indicated that it would not stop at the destruction and degradation of scientific research in the United States. He will also denounce, misinterpret and build it to reach distinctly non -scientific ends.
These disastrous wolves will not solve anything; They will not be reintroduced into the wild, they will not help clarify the populations of deer and elk.
But buried in the announcement was something that could make a difference. It turns out that Colossal has also cloned a certain number of red wolves – a species which is in danger in a critical way but which is not extinguished – with the aim of increasing genetic diversity among the population. It does not resuscitate a species that humanity has destroyed. This helps survive.
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