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by FranzFerdiNaN 2078 days ago
This is a hilariously naive way of seeing things. Science is never neutral and never can be, and pretending it is neutral is just saying you're fine with the current status quo.

Trump actively harms science and scientists and universities, so why should the scientific community system quiet?
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Flankk 2078 days ago
Because it is incredibly divisive and cheapens the journal. I'm not interested in what my doctor thinks of Biden, I just want to get rid of the damn foot fungus.
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threatofrain 2078 days ago
What if you wanted your doctor to assist you in abortion? That's an American political matter.
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mcphage 2077 days ago
> Because it is incredibly divisive and cheapens the journal.

Pretending this is a normal election, or that Trump is normal candidate, cheapens everyone who has a platform and does not use it.

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082349872349872 2078 days ago
Nature doesn't deal with getting rid of foot fungi either. You're thinking of New England Journal of Medicine.

(FWIW, I think it would be amusing if Biden reached out to https://www.heavenmagazine.nl in order to get a Confucian mandate of heaven.)

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Flankk 2078 days ago
analogy: a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
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082349872349872 2078 days ago
loose analogy: clarifies like a fish without a bicycle

I did find https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201468 but note that although it shows up on the web under nature.com, it's been published in The Journal of Antibiotics, not the flagship. Nature itself carries articles more on the lines of https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42065-5 .

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yokaze 2078 days ago
> I'm not interested in what my doctor thinks of Biden, I just want to get rid of the damn foot fungus.

You are free to ignore what your doctor thinks of Biden, but if the other partly has or plans to enact laws which will impede your treatment, it is not outside of the responsibility of your doctor to inform you about that. I would expect my doctor to at least to be informed about it.

Certainly, it only is an aspect of policies, and of course, you are free to decide differently, as your decision may weigh things differently.

But I think, the main point is, you don't want to be bothered. That is understandable, but the solution is to ignore it.

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