⟳ Репост от Kitty WH 🚺
When I say billionaires tilt the free and fair marketplace of ideas with their money, this is the kind of thing I mean. Money into academic centers and thinktanks changes public debate and creates bias! Our goal should be to level the free speech playing field.
Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽so much I wanted to quote here about why we as scientists seem to find ourselves in this current political situation: “When and why powerful and wealthy outsiders chose to pluck scholars and ideas from obscurity should be of key concern to those of us interested in the independence of science.”