Mar 23, 2022 04:17 PM
This being an example of what this item brought up: Cancel culture in science? The "ban" on Russian colleagues.
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https://forbetterscience.com/2022/03/23/...n-ukraine/
INTRO: Russia is committing all possible war atrocities in Ukraine, thousands of Ukrainian civilians are being killed, mutilated, raped, robbed of homes and basic necessities, left to die of hunger, thirst and diseases in the rubble of their besieged towns. Russia hasn’t (yet) began with Sarajevo- or Babi Yar-style mass executions, or deployed chemical or nuclear weapons, but the plans are surely all in place.
The vast majority of the zombiefied Russian public cheers on their murderous Z-swastika army, occasionally distracted with complains about sugar scarcity. Many western and even non-western-owned companies left Russia in protest. Others, among them certain French, Swiss and German giants, even plan to expand their business operations in Russia, and with their taxes to support mass murder.
In any case, EU nations suddenly discovered it can’t boycott Russian fossil fuels because their entire economy is so dependent on those, as if all these years we were ruled not by our own elected democratic representatives like Angela Merkel, but by Gazprom. So our political elites may be all deeply saddened and shocked about the genocide in Mariupol, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, the suburbs of Kyiv etc, but with our gas and oil purchases we keep funding the Russian war machine with billions every day.
Boycotting Russian science wouldn’t change much of course. But it would be an important symbolic measure. Also, it would make it more difficult for Russian secret services to spy on western technology... (MORE - details)
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https://forbetterscience.com/2022/03/23/...n-ukraine/
INTRO: Russia is committing all possible war atrocities in Ukraine, thousands of Ukrainian civilians are being killed, mutilated, raped, robbed of homes and basic necessities, left to die of hunger, thirst and diseases in the rubble of their besieged towns. Russia hasn’t (yet) began with Sarajevo- or Babi Yar-style mass executions, or deployed chemical or nuclear weapons, but the plans are surely all in place.
The vast majority of the zombiefied Russian public cheers on their murderous Z-swastika army, occasionally distracted with complains about sugar scarcity. Many western and even non-western-owned companies left Russia in protest. Others, among them certain French, Swiss and German giants, even plan to expand their business operations in Russia, and with their taxes to support mass murder.
In any case, EU nations suddenly discovered it can’t boycott Russian fossil fuels because their entire economy is so dependent on those, as if all these years we were ruled not by our own elected democratic representatives like Angela Merkel, but by Gazprom. So our political elites may be all deeply saddened and shocked about the genocide in Mariupol, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, the suburbs of Kyiv etc, but with our gas and oil purchases we keep funding the Russian war machine with billions every day.
Boycotting Russian science wouldn’t change much of course. But it would be an important symbolic measure. Also, it would make it more difficult for Russian secret services to spy on western technology... (MORE - details)