As an American scientist, I'll say I really empathized with Andy Weir's protagonists who are constantly lamenting the hell we all must endure continuous bouncing between Victory Units and Socialist Units. They promised me in Elementary school 55 years ago we would be metric by 2000.

This entire administration has been a master class in the Dunning-Kruger effect.

For anyone unfamiliar with the Dunning-Kruger effect, here's a great explainer www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_Q...

Phil Iversen and I lead the Stats section of the AGM. We're getting ready to release some new web tools for statistical process control of bioassays, and I'm currently writing the documentation. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK343...

This is why a lot of biological efficacy measurements, especially those based on counting photons, show constant cv's across the dynamic range of an assay rather than constant sd.

Tax breaks for the the top 1% paid for by everyone else:
SNAP cuts
ACA health insurance cuts
Tariffs
Increasing inflation
Fewer jobs
Trump Green cards, if you've got $1 million
Pardons for sale
DOJ prosecutes enemies and sandwich guy but drops cases against corporations over $ billions in penalties

These agencies, which are being gutted, are losing technical experts with decades of experience in what works and what needs improvement. Replacing thenwith people who's are valued more for their loyalty than their expertise will not end well. 4/4

One of the hallmarks of science is that the data gets better over time as we both increase our technical capabilities and our understanding of of the world around us. This is also true for economic data, public health data, building codes, and the social sciences. 3/4

The data collected and shared by many federal agencies is used by our government as well people around the world to make decisions which have huge impacts on our lives. They use this data like an airline pilot flying in bad weather who must rely on instruments rather than their own eyes. 2/4