Jackson Wheat

@jacksonwheat1.bsky.social

Passion for evolution. YouTuber. Educator. Author. He/him. www.youtube.com/c/jacksonwheat

A response to the opinion that private $ can replace the NIH. Businesses are not charities. They work on profit margins. Decades of $ is essential for research to progress from an initial discovery to treatment. Most of the dirty work goes on in academic labs. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Private money cannot replace public funding of science

Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

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I know that no one cares anyone and it’s been lost to the news cycle, but Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Mahmoud Khalil, and Rumeysa Ozturk were actual examples of fraudulent weaponization of the DOJ…by Trump.

I really hate seeing articles with the phrase "repairing trust in science" in them. The people who have consistently lied about science--whether the link between smoking and cancer, climate change, COVID-19, vaccines etc.--are corporations and right-wing pundits, not scientists.

I think it should be hammered until the end of time that every podcaster and influencer who said the COVID vaccine would kill millions or that hydroxychloroquine/ivermectin protect against COVID was DEAD WRONG. They should never be able to move on from that.