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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 has 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 slided due to Trump's anti-Bazos bias.

Poor Jeff Bezos.

Science will, we hope, find a coronavirus vaccine.

But the political economic conditions within which science in general

and vaccine research in particular is done under capitalism

means that helpful research that could have been done in the past wasn't and that if a

new vaccine is discovered it could very well be subject to the demands of profit

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