09 October, 2019 – Episode 742 – Science Nobelity

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2020 Nobel Prize Winners, Funding Black Scientists, The Resistance, New Antibiotic?, Drone Whale Scale, Documentary Drive, Human Salamander, False Song Memories, Mold Pigs, Zebra Stripe Update, Solar Pressure, New Moons, Bird Pee, Can-O-Marrow, And Much More…

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The following program has persisted out a love of science

A belief that the discovery of scientific knowledge

Application of that knowledge in the world

And a constant effort and dedication to learn more

Make the world a better place to live.

Through science, we accomplish the goals humanity sets for itself.

But science is in trouble.

There are powerful people who simply do not want scientists to speak publicly,

want to prevent them from sharing their knowledge.

Not that this is anything new, for science has always been in trouble this way.

Religion was an early and persistent threat…

Demanding, through violent retribution,

that no progress be made in science that did not capitulate the prevailing dogma.

Currently the threat is political…

with redacted reports, researcher retaliation, and silencincing of results…

happening at an increasingly inhibiting pace…

Maybe what we need now is a new legal framework…

a constitutional amendment for science.

A protection for the funding and findings of science.

One that separates once and for all,

the political interests of politicians and their donors…

From the work of scientists.

A separation of science and state.

A freedom of publication act.

One that once and for all prevents the willful disregard of scientific findings by political appointees…

And instead puts the knowledge in the hands of

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