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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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[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The entire enterprise is political. You have to claim you're an authority first by creating an argument and then defending that claim. That is politics.

The time it takes to learn about a subject costs a fair amount of money. The people with money, by and large, aren't experts. They need to be convinced by the claimant that they deserve the money because they are experts and able to do something valuable with that money. This is politics.

This idealized views of science knowledge creation is a thin investigation into the social and political aspects of science. It makes no room for starts, transitions, different levels of expertise, or old experts, often revered in the field, defending their positions because of their political status in the field.

Addressing these issues at depth take time and is exhausting when dealing with the self assured idealist.

[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

So, you keep saying money this, money that, and I 100% agree that money makes everything political.

Science is not inherently political until you bring money into it, which is why well funded, independent and public research institutions are such a benefit. And why threatening the operating capital of those researchers like we have here is such an insult. They don't care about these squabbles.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Its political not because of money but because of people.