• taiyang@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Did they just hear the term junk science and went “no u”?

    This administration is so fucking frustrating, but it seems they want to remove any meaning of that word, the same way they always do.

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      Did they just hear the term junk science and went “no u”?

      That’s EXACTLY what they did, yeah. Just like when they appropriated “fake news” which was originally a term describing their own disinformation.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Nah, John Stossel was using it back in the '90s to deny climate change. The term “junk science” has always been used as an excuse to ignore reality.