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Chocolat_Chaud @lemmy.ca

4d ago

Russ Vought is the White House Budget Director. He is a Christian Evangelical. Vought believes many scientists don't respect Christians. He is taking revenge by slashing science budgets

This is why you don't put Christian Evangelicals in charge

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01397-1

https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-doe-office-science-face-deep-cuts-trumps-first-budget

https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/06/10/proposed-nasa-budget-cuts-impact/

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Many scientists don’t respect Christian’s.
I mean, seriously. Does anyone actually respect, for example, RFK jr? Like. anti science and very obviously stupid.
Why shouldn’t he be disrespected? That goes for any Christian who is antivax, etc.
- Christian's what

And this is why nobody respects you.
- Unfortunately, respect isn't earned in capitalist states. It is purchased.
  Vought will build up a healthy crop of future university officials who kowtow to him in order to get their hands on grant money. And Vought will crow about how many new professors and accredited faculty agree with him. All while corporate media regurgitates junk pseudoscience to a gullible public behind the mask of "objective" research.
  We're in for decades of Jordan B Peterson tier academics swarming over the University landscape, eager to advance religious bullshit in exchange for a salary and commission.
  
  Unfortunately, respect isn't earned in capitalist states. It is purchased.
  🙄 Why do so many users on Lemmy have such a ridiculous hard on for hating capitalism like it’s Satan’s economic theory? Regulated capitalism combined with socialist policies around health care and other subjects works great. All the best economies in the world run on a form of that combination. Purely socialist/communist countries all turn into dictatorships.
- Self-fulfilling prophecy.

Another cult member put into a position of power to force their agenda. Fucking pathetic parasites

Dismissing young earth creationism (which is just as absurd as flat earthism) is disrespect to these people. Part of the Christian grievance is they know that educated people don't find their beliefs credible. This feels like a personal attack to them.
I've been accused of "hating Christians" because I wouldn't say "you're right, no one really knows." To which I responded "love the sinner, hate the sin, we do actually know and reality is not some kind of social negotiation." (that was NOT well received) I've also been very aggressively told "We don't like smart people around here."
- "We don't like smart people around here."
  Nice…reminds me of an old Bill Hicks joke. “Whatchu readin’ for?!”
  “Not ‘what am I reading?’, but ‘what am I reading for’”?…
- He's prolly a flat earther, too.
  remember, the whole reason YEC is a thing is because they take the bible literally. The bible describes the earth as flat.

There should be a number of treason trials should this administration ever end. Defunding science will lead directly to human deaths.
- Will? Already is.

This shows Russ Vought, isn’t afraid of showing he’s an unapologetic asshole hiding behind the guise of religion. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given.

It's not just scientists that don't respect cultist assholes.

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