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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago

That's just wrong. Everything is politics.

Politics not invading science means horrific human experiments at the extreme end.

Politics must decide where funding should go for public science projects. They must mix for that reason. Politics retaliate in the case of human designer babies in China. And that is considered good by some.

Just because a government is heinously terrible does not mean governing is bad. It just means that they do it badly.