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    "Interestingly, Trump had posted on Truth Social on June 20 that Harvard had “acted extremely appropriately” during negotiations and that he was close to a “Deal” with the university that would “be ‘mindbogglingly’ HISTORIC, and very good for our Country.”

    Wow, what kind of a retarded person is this?

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    Can these samples be transported to another facility in a stable democracy?

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      things like this have already been happening for months

      I read in Dutch news papers that Dutch scientists are working closely with their US counterparts to copy, save, and rescue as much data as possible

      It’s such a sad state of affairs but then again, IDGAF. Americans chose this, deal with it. Your country is over, you’re done for. Once you lose science and scientists, you’re building your own end.

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        I wish Canada were doing more of that. We’re in such a natural place to poach the “good ones” but there doesn’t seem to be any concerted effort.

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        I am so happy to hear this. I hope that hackers are able to get in through the many backdoors that have been left open now, too. Please anyone and everyone, get the scientific data before it’s deleted.

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      Eggs are not produced by women. All the eggs they’ll ever have developed in the womb. The ovaries simply store them until ovulation where they mature and are released. Women also go through menopause around middle age, so are people over 50 or so no longer considered women if they don’t produce eggs? Then what gender are they?

      If I get in an accident and lose my testicles, I’ll no longer biologically produce sperm. Would I stop being a man?

      God this is fucking stupid.

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      It seems to be a common thing, couching misogyny in the language of “protecting” or “defending” women. This stuff makes my skin crawl.

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        Doublespeak. Take away women’s rights (you know for damn sure that “no fault” divorce and DV support are what Heritage is slavering to cut next) and have a bunch of “feminists” claim that the most important priority in women’s rights is the exclusion of trans women. Not the fact that women are dying because they can’t get reproductive healthcare, not the fact that Adriana Smith was a fucking zombie incubator (in a scene that mirrors something in the Handmaids Tale tv show) - the fact that a trans woman might take a leak in the women’s restroom or be on the women’s team in a fencing competition.

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    In a related story, President Donald Trump has personally set fire to the Library of Congress. As he has previously cancelled funding for, and disbanded, all fire services in the Washington DC area, the raging inferno burns unchecked.

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    Yet all of that priceless data may soon be discarded due to President Donald Trump’s ongoing feud with Harvard

    Willett and his team were left scrambling to find the funds needed to protect freezers stocked with stool, urine and DNA specimens gathered from thousand of nurses for nearly five decades. Just the liquid nitrogen needed to keep the specimens frozen costs thousands of dollars a month.

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      Trump will destroy it because it’s icky stuff relating to women, and it serves to help women.

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        Now that I think about it, Harvard has what the biggest endowment in history by far? It’s peanuts for them to preserve it.

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    Fuck, are we going to have to crowdfund this? At least with CNN reporting on it there’s enough awareness they might secure alternative sources, but this is getting fucking insane.

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      I honestly would not be surprised if any attempt to save these samples, or in fact to defend any of the other scientific progress being discarded, was met with a harsh reprisal.

      Like, they’re intentionally going over the top destroying these institutions and data to provoke a reaction, this drawing their awake adversaries or if the woodwork. (And, since they’re so opposed to being “woke”, one just assume they’re sleepwalking through life…)