• Rikudou_Sage
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    622 days ago

    A conservative scientist, that’s a new one for me. It feels like an oxymoron.

    • burgersc12
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      2 days ago

      It’s like the doctors and nurses who are antivax they are not oxymorons, they are fucking morons

      • @[email protected]
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        212 days ago

        I still remember working for a medical office during the beginning of COVID and seeing MULTIPLE SURGEONS wear shit like masks that say “this mask does nothing”, which makes me question their credentials or the crackerjack box they got their doctorate from.

        • @[email protected]
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          102 days ago

          Always figured surgeons are just really well educated mechanics, and don’t necessarily need to grasp the biology in the same way chemists and internal medicine practitioners might.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 days ago

            Yeah I think it’s very interesting that doctors and surgeons follow so much of the same curriculum, when they actually need completely different skill sets.

            • @[email protected]
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              92 days ago

              y interesting that doctors and surgeons follow so much of the same curriculum, when they actually need completely different skill sets.

              it’s the Anglo-Saxon way of distinguishing doctors and surgeons. Everybody else consider all surgeons doctors. Officially. The germanic way is to divide it to surgical medicine and conservative medicine (as in practicing medicine while conserving the integrity of bodily barriers).

              That said, my favorite response from the surgical instructors in med school when we told them we don’t want to be surgeons: “Ohh, so you wanna be an intellectual?!”

              Still cracks me up.

      • Rikudou_Sage
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        22 days ago

        They can be both, can’t they? Antivax doctors are also an oxymoron.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 days ago

      What kind of scientist do you think work for big pharma, Exxon Mobile or Raytheon? It certainly ain’t leftist scientists.

      • Rikudou_Sage
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        122 days ago

        I’m not surprised that a scientist votes for Trump, I don’t think they’re some kind of super intelligent superhumans. I’m surprised that a scientist self-describes as a conservative, because being a scientist is about discovering new things, while being a conservative is about everything staying the same.

        • @[email protected]
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          72 days ago

          while being a conservative is about everything staying the same.

          Or “while being a conservative is about not discovering new things, as it might challenge their status quo”

      • @[email protected]
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        82 days ago

        Mostly just normal people with families trying to make ends meet… Scientists aren’t like cartoon mad scientists, my dude, they’re just normal people with careers.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 days ago

        From personal experience working in DoD research, the amount of compartmentalization a lot of those people have drove me insane. I knew quite a few young earth creationists & fake moon landing believers when I was there. I definitely think a lot of those folks think that their military funding is safer under trump, and everyone outside of their field is a “corrupt leftist scientist”

    • @[email protected]
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      32 days ago

      Fear makes even smart people stupid. Political ideology is about bravery and hope, not science.