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Showing posts with label obscurantist. Show all posts

Saturday, August 30, 2025

China becomes global tech leader

 From Jesse Jenkins


How China went from clean energy copycat to global tech leader www.nytimes.com/interactive/...




Comment by Chris Bataille

From a US perspective, this is fundamentally worse than Sputnik, and it is having the exact opposite and wrong reaction to 1957 - retreat, shutting down basic science and clean tech commercialization, instead of diving into creating a national science complex and building fast.

Yes. The religious loons have won. The US is retreating into a new dark age.

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Covid death rates and the GQP


From a toot by Liam O'Mara


Seems there is a pretty clear correlation between support for #Trumpism and a lack of basic scientific literacy. Whodathunkit?