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Attacking evolutionary biology is critical for the religious rights project of social reaction.

Attacking climate science is essential for capitalism's protection of fossil fuel industry profits.

Attacking public health science is now essential work in Trump's insane fantasy to make America normal again as workers are forced back to the job and off unemployment.

But science is not an inherently progressive enterprise. The way that science is done and utilized has also been essential for

American capitalism and empire, from the geologists helping to drill deep water oil wells to the

$10 billion defense department contract awarded to Microsoft but sought by Amazon, which claims

that it was slighted due to Trump's anti-Bezos bias.

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