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... Billions of dollars in cuts to research are leaving lives at stake.
One hundred years ago this month, the Scopes trial was held in Dayton, Tenn. For 11 days, jurors heard arguments about John Scopes, a high school teacher who had taught the theory of evolution in apparent violation of the Butler Act, a state law that made it illegal for public school teachers to introduce theories that contradicted the Biblical creation story. ...
Since then, the right-wing in America has intermittently conducted an assault on science that, with the ascent of the religious right, gelled into an all-out war around the early 1980s. Many conservatives have, over the last 40 years, opposed AIDS research, stem cell research, basic facts about climate change -- and legislation to address it -- and measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
It seems the administration and its allies in Congress want to set the United States back a century -- back to the time of the Scopes trial.
Under President Donald Trump, the GOP has decided to go nuclear. The federal government's support of science and medicine is being systematically destroyed by devastating cuts to research, agencies and staff.
It seems the administration and its allies in Congress want to set the United States back a century " back to the time of the Scopes trial. ...
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That's actually Rudy and Donald on an also actual Date Night.
SO, yeah.... imagine if you will, FF as as the senior RuPaul. (if you dare!)
apropos of nothing, this person was the model for a character, Jimmy Vulsa i think it was... in the Christopher Moore book, "Noir".
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Which is a pretty funny book; after a day of news like ours has become, "normal" in an evil sort of way... Moore's comic novels at least one place where I do laugh out loud reading book.
btw, asking for a friend... do people still read books?