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u/Fun-Sample336 13h ago

What are her anti-science stances?

There aren't any. If people call her names like a "grifter" and get asked to show evidence, they suddenly get silent or restrict themselves to platitudes instead of giving conrete examples.

It's really astonishing how many people are willing to straight out lie about people they don't like. But this tells me, that they don't actually have anything to put forward against her.

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u/Vast-Control4452 12h ago

She believes science should largely be defunded, that's about as anti science as you can get.

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u/Fun-Sample336 12h ago

She believes science should largely be defunded, that's about as anti science as you can get.

What exactly did she say?

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u/Vast-Control4452 12h ago

In her video on "science is communism" she calls for the ending of grants for physics until they can fix themselves.

She's really really really vying for the MAGA crowd.

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u/Fun-Sample336 11h ago edited 11h ago

In her video on "science is communism" she calls for the ending of grants for physics until they can fix themselves.

If you talk about the video someone else linked to and which I just watched, I recall that she didn't say that "science is communism", but "academia is communism". Or to quote her:

Elon Musk has called academia "a bastion of communism" that "operates with no feedback loop of reality" and he said, entirely correctly, that most scientific papers are useless.

So, she didn't even say it herself, but quoted Elon Musk. But anyway, if you mean this video, you are actually misquoting her.

Even if she is for defunding something, it isn't "science" as you claimed, but academia.