I should likely just keep my head down but the creepy new Minister of Truth just reminded me too much of Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter…so, you know.
In a somewhat meta process, someone asked me a question about the carnivore diet in that twitter thread. What’s interesting about that is nutrition questions galore are mis/dis/mal information under the emerging guidelines. Many will dismiss this as paranoia, but once the ability to discuss things like this are really assailed, progress effectively halts.
Another wacky angle to all this is science starts with observation. An observation that by definition is is bit att-oddds or squirly compared to what we assume to be “true.”
The Ministry of Truth
None of us should just keep our heads down. That many do is so disheartening. Those who don’t are a beacon to others: we might feel alone, we may get shouted down or cancelled or whatever - but we are NOT alone. Keeping our heads up and our mind sharp is so important.
glad someone else thought of Delores Umbridge. I feel like everyone is (rightly) fixated on 1984, but that creepy female singing about censorship and wrongthink made me immediately think of that horrifying, pink wearing, authoritarian from HP. And yes, I'm a trained biologist/ecologist/geologist so I know she's a female lol.