Death threats to federal scientists fueled by misinformation are becoming more common place.

We are going to pay dearly for allowing misinformation + fervor to run rampant.

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White Coat Waste Project files complaint over government employee’s emails claiming it incited harassment against Nicole Kleinstreuer

Death threats to NIH official spark debate over aggressive campaign to end animal research

White Coat Waste Project files complaint over government employee’s emails claiming it incited harassment against Nicole Kleinstreuer

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  1. No different than the 1600’s.

    Galileo Galilei was not technically "imprisoned" in the traditional sense by the Catholic Church, but he was subjected to house arrest and a trial that found him guilty of heresy for his support of heliocentric theory (the idea that the Earth revolves around the sun).

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  2. Pulitzer Prize (1964) winning book called it ...

    If you read it, the path will become clearer.

    Warnings about the future are often found in history.

    How do you hide the keys to releasing the shackles of ignorance and oppression?

    You put them in a book.

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  3. Let’s wait for all the WCW folks to be first in line for all the trials of new therapeutics that haven’t been tested in animals…because surely they would want to be the guinea pigs.

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  4. It is part of Hitler's Playbook-demonize educators-goes along side banning books, targeting the press, blaming immigrants, and dividing people. It's all recorded in history books! Oh, wait, the Orange Stain bans books.

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