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Here are some of the death threats sent to a climate scientist, which the journalist behind the fake controversy “Climategate” joked didn’t exist, and wrote a column about, and then climate scientist Phil Jones of University of East Anglia released these. More at the link, worse than these.
Combined with nanoscientists getting targeted by bombs and animal researchers getting their homes flooded, anti-science movements are getting bloody.
Science is not the enemy. Ignorance and fear is the enemy.
(via Grist)
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Here are some of the death threats sent to a climate scientist, which the journalist behind the fake controversy “Climategate” joked didn’t exist, and wrote a column about, and then climate scientist Phil Jones of University of East Anglia released these. More at the link, worse than these.

Combined with nanoscientists getting targeted by bombs and animal researchers getting their homes flooded, anti-science movements are getting bloody.

Science is not the enemy. Ignorance and fear is the enemy.

(via Grist)

Source: grist.org

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  1. sciencecanbecool reblogged this from jtotheizzoe and added:
    It’s incredible what vitriol...knowledge invokes.
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  3. dr-fantabulous reblogged this from kate-of-convenience and added:
    That.^
  4. kate-of-convenience reblogged this from greatmindsofscience and added:
    this is the most saddening thing i have read in a long time.
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    I saw a quote somewhere that said something along the lines of how science would be an enthusiast for cloning dinosaurs...
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    This is the second post I’ve seen today about death threats/violence directed towards scientists and it makes me really...
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  29. thatonemax reblogged this from stormofbears and added:
    “Science is not the enemy. Ignorance and fear is the enemy.”
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    This is a damned shame for the entire human race.
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    Ugh.
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    Unfortunate.
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    I just want to say that there seems to me to be a difference between really powerful politicians and businesspeople...
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