Tony Bark@pawb.social to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoRFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptionsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1539arrow-down16
arrow-up1533arrow-down1external-linkRFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptionsarstechnica.comTony Bark@pawb.social to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square68fedilink
minus-squaretaiyang@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55·1 day agoDid they just hear the term junk science and went “no u”? This administration is so fucking frustrating, but it seems they want to remove any meaning of that word, the same way they always do.
minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-29 hours agoNah, John Stossel was using it back in the '90s to deny climate change. The term “junk science” has always been used as an excuse to ignore reality.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·1 day ago Did they just hear the term junk science and went “no u”? That’s EXACTLY what they did, yeah. Just like when they appropriated “fake news” which was originally a term describing their own disinformation.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·17 hours agoThat’s not new though, Stalin and Hitler both played the fake news game.
minus-squareCitizenKong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·edit-21 day agoWhich also nicely mirrors the Nazis calling everybody that contradicts them Lügenpresse.
Did they just hear the term junk science and went “no u”?
This administration is so fucking frustrating, but it seems they want to remove any meaning of that word, the same way they always do.
Nah, John Stossel was using it back in the '90s to deny climate change. The term “junk science” has always been used as an excuse to ignore reality.
That’s EXACTLY what they did, yeah. Just like when they appropriated “fake news” which was originally a term describing their own disinformation.
That’s not new though, Stalin and Hitler both played the fake news game.
Which also nicely mirrors the Nazis calling everybody that contradicts them Lügenpresse.