Destroying 50 years of women’s health samples is like ‘burning the Library of Congress’
These women dedicated almost 50 years to science. Their efforts may soon be trashed | CNN
Can these samples be transported to another facility in a stable democracy?
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.
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.
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.
you shit your pants, now lay in it
As it were
I'm sure it would somehow be considered antisemitic and blocked.
Just like we did with CERN.
Where have I heard this before?
The Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science) was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as Institute for Sexual Research, Institute of Sexology, Institute for Sexology, or Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The Institute was a non-profit foundation situated in Tiergarten, Berlin. It was the first sexology research center in the world.
The Institute was headed by Magnus Hirschfeld, who since 1897 had run the world's first homosexual organization Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee (Scientific-Humanitarian Committee), which campaigned on progressive and rational grounds for LGBT rights and tolerance at the start of the first homosexual movement that would flourish in interwar Weimar culture. The Committee published the long-running journal Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen. Hirschfeld built a unique library at the institute on gender, same-sex love and eroticism.
The institute pioneered research and treatment for various matters regarding gender and sexuality, including gay, transgender, and intersex topics. In addition, it offered various other services to the general public: this included treatment for alcoholism, gynecological examinations, marital and sex counseling, treatment for venereal diseases, and access to contraceptive treatment. It offered education on many of these matters to both health professionals and laypersons.
After the Nazis gained control of Germany in the 1930s, the institute and its libraries were destroyed as part of a Nazi government censorship program by youth brigades, who burned its books and documents in the street.
One estimate says that between 12,000 to 20,000 books and journals, and even larger number of images and sex subjects, were destroyed. Another estimate says that about 25,000 books were destroyed.
This included artistic works, rare medical and anthropological documents, and charts concerning cases of intersexuality which were prepared for the International Medical Congress, among other things. A collection of works about sexuality, in any one place, similar to the one stored at the institute was not compiled until the founding of the Kinsey Institute in 1947.
They're literally just running it back, the mad lads.
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.
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.
Trump will destroy it because it's icky stuff relating to women, and it serves to help women.
Now that I think about it, Harvard has what the biggest endowment in history by far? It's peanuts for them to preserve it.
Don’t worry - the US government is very concerned about women’s health! They even made a website!
It seems to be a common thing, couching misogyny in the language of "protecting" or "defending" women. This stuff makes my skin crawl.
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.
Next step, modesty rules.
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.
It’s so vibes based.
If you try to nail one of them with persistent Müllerian duct, it’s a “defect” and doesn’t count.
There are tons of otherwise cis men walking around with ovaries.
For all the insistence that they know “basic biology” they fucking don’t.
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.
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...)
An opportunity for billionaires to save the day. They won’t.
"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?
Wow, what kind of a retarded person is this?
A corrupt one?
It seems to me that he can't put together any sentence other than unreasonably hyping up his diplomatic skills
fucking reprehensible
Yes, that's why it's so appealing to them.
Don't fucking give them any ideas
Definitely lots of woke material in there.
God forbid they find out what the founding fathers actually thought