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sgtdull:

superqueenoficeandfire:

saffythegeek:

superqueenoficeandfire:

Just when you think the Tories can’t get any worse you hear that they want to stop scientists from lobbying against them if they get government funding ????????????. Because you know fuck the facts..

People don’t realise how serious this is, the large majority of science funding in universities and other institutions (ie DIAMOND, the singly most expensive scientific project in the UK) are funded by government funding bodies. If they do this, and do it int he way the law is written up. No scientist currently funded from any of these bodies (ie all active academic researchers outside of companies) will be unable to critise any aspect of the government’s legislation related to their research – you know the thing they are EXPERTS IN.

Not to mention that this was published days after Theresa May was reported trying to edit a scientific report about Drugs and their classification.

This is a genuinely terrifying policy for people like me and Saffy who will work in science in academia. They are literally censuring scientists from speaking the truth!

There’s a petition going round on the government website to change this, here’s the link: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/122957

If you can sign please do, it is vital that scientists are not silenced by the government

For an idea of the gravity and reach that this potentially has, all seven UK research councils receive funding from the government. I alone have been funded, supported or done work funded/supported by five of these seven research councils. Most research done in the UK is funded by these research councils; for ones research to be stifled on the whim of a political agenda cannot be allowed to happen. So please, sign the petition and please don’t let the government get any more of a grip on research – they are scummy and underhanded enough as it is.

 I and many other young academics didn’t go through so much pain to succeed in a field which may just become another vehicle for political malice and misinformation.

herdreadsrock:

escapedosmil:

wuuthradical:

escapedosmil:

wuuthradical:

escapedosmil:

Today a 16 year old boy was brought into the clinic by his aunt to ‘have the talk’ because his school didn’t teach sex ED and his mother wouldn’t talk to him about sex.

She spent 40 bucks so he could get tested for the first time.

I spent an hour talking to this young boy about sex. I got to have the sex talk with him. I showed him how to properly use a condom and protect himself and his partners. We talked about STDs and pregnancy prevention. We even talked about pubic grooming and ways to avoid razor burn. This poor boy has never had someone talk to him about anything related to the changes his body is going through.

And then we spent 20 minutes talking about consent and how important it is.

Growing up I never, ever had someone talk to me about consent and its importance. I even had sex ED in school!

This shit is important ya’ll.

Planned Parenthood is important

It is the parents’ duty to have “the talk” with their kids, not a government funded organization that murders babies.

First of all fucktruck: I am not a government employee. My wages are not paid by the government.

Second: zero babies have ever been murdered in a planned parenthood.

I didn’t say a god damn word about abortion but you had to get your fucking tighty whiteys in a bunch because an organization that you know nothing about is doing good things for millions of people and you hate it.

Shut your face up about shit you don’t understand you fucking dump truck.

Abortion is murder, just because they’re in the womb doesn’t change the fact you’re killing an innocent human being.

As I said, it’s not a faceless organization’s job to provide sex ed while simultaneously killing unborn children.

Listen up kiddo:

Abortion isn’t murder. Murder is illegal. Abortion is not illegal. IE abortion is not murder.

As i said (and we’ll go with what i said as not total bullshit because it’s obvious you have absolutely no real knowledge when it comes to sex or reproduction and i think we can thank your parents for that) this young man had a single mother that didn’t feel comfortable talking to him about sex. So i did it. I provided medically accurate and up to date information unlike so many parents today.

And by the way, planned parenthood isn’t some shadowy faceless organization.

For example, this is my face. The face i made while reading your stupid ass response.

Get em, Damien