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When the physicists need burner phones, that's when you know America's changed

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267 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 18:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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tredre3 ◴[29 Mar 25 19:32 UTC] No.43517965[source]▶
The title is trying to imply that people are being targeted for being physicists or other "benign" scientific work, but that is not the case; Their expressed political opinions are why they're targeted. It's still wrong, it's still bad, but there's no need to mislead people.
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1. roxolotl ◴[29 Mar 25 19:40 UTC] No.43518034[source]▶
There is no such thing as benign scientific work. Questioning the nature of reality at its core is a radical act. As we’re seeing with tons of biology research there are right and wrong questions. It is only time till that spreads.