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In reply to the discussion: Scientific illiteracy baffles me [View all]NNadir
(33,512 posts)When I was working on HIV, people were dying.
Got it?
You couldn't care less I suppose.
When you get sick, please don't take any drug discovered by medicinal chemists, developed by process chemists, analyzed by analytical chemists, regulated by regulatory affairs, anyone at the FDA.
Fuck all those Ph.D's who labored hours in graduate school for low (or no) pay, who stayed up late at night in the lab trying to crystallize a compound that took months and months of work to synthesize, who fiddled with balky instruments, went to bed thinking about what might have went wrong, and couldn't enjoy when things work due to a lack of sleep, because people were dying and saving their lives was important.
It's very clear from this entire discourse, that it is not only Republicans who hate science and scientists. But I already knew that. Some of the anti-science posts on this website are appalling.
Oh, and let me know which poor people should starve to death because crops fail because of insects and weeds or a lack of nutrients.
If anyone thinks that people on the left are immune from embracing ignorance and fear and supercilious self-absorption, I'll take your post as QED for the opposite opinion.
Have a nice life, and if you get very, very, very, very sick, keep your objection to the idea that scientists should be paid for their hard work in mind and don't take one of the drugs that people like me worked tirelessly to develop.