I will echo sentiments that this is ironic. Where was a Bethesda declaration when the zeitgeist banned any research into things that would upset the narrative around trans medicine in the previous administrations? Where was any outrage over the AMA ignoring in whole the UK finding that giving hormones to children did not help and in fact was harming them?
freen · 44m ago
100% guaranteed that this will get nuked.
No way anything even remotely critical of the current administration remains on HN.
djoldman · 2m ago
Generally things get flagged on HN because the posts are off topic and have a low chance of interesting and insightful commentary (or worse: likely to become flamewars). This is regardless of political leaning (right/left/other).
In short: the internet certainly does not lack for politics-centered content. HN isn't it.
eej71 · 24m ago
Do you say that because you think the majority of HN readers are sympathetic to the Trump administration? Or do you say that because you think those with the power to flag this kind of submission are secret MAGA hat wearing loyalists? Or is there something else you see that makes you see it this way?
I ask these questions because in my experience here in HN and in most other related tech forums, the participants and those with the unlucky job of being a mod are usually not in tune with Team Trump.
jonathanlydall · 21m ago
In my experience it’s anything political (regardless of “side”) which gets downvoted on HN, which is most likely because the HN guidelines specifically discourage it, which is a very common policy on forums due to them more often than not devolving into unproductive arguments.
TrnsltLife · 27m ago
"in protest of the politicization of science and science funding at the NIH"
As if there wasn't politicization of science and science funding during the entire last administration. There was just more of an alignment of worldview between scientists and that administration. Scientists who didn't share the worldview or walk in lockstep still got oppressed and silenced.
jekwoooooe · 24m ago
Both things are true. Trump is destroying our science presence AND Biden and co heavily politicized science regarding gender, trans, all that stuff to the point where you aren’t even allowed to do research at all!
Science should ALWAYS be free to ask questions and explore them no matter how uncomfortable they sound. And this is a huge overreaction to how the left politicized science their way and continued to say that’s it not political. And now they complain about it… can’t have it both ways.
No way anything even remotely critical of the current administration remains on HN.
In short: the internet certainly does not lack for politics-centered content. HN isn't it.
I ask these questions because in my experience here in HN and in most other related tech forums, the participants and those with the unlucky job of being a mod are usually not in tune with Team Trump.
As if there wasn't politicization of science and science funding during the entire last administration. There was just more of an alignment of worldview between scientists and that administration. Scientists who didn't share the worldview or walk in lockstep still got oppressed and silenced.
Science should ALWAYS be free to ask questions and explore them no matter how uncomfortable they sound. And this is a huge overreaction to how the left politicized science their way and continued to say that’s it not political. And now they complain about it… can’t have it both ways.