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Scientists on alert as NOAA restricts contact with foreign nationals

33 pointsby 1y agowashingtonpost.com
11 comments
1y agoHN ↗

Even scientists in the USSR were occasionally permitted to attend conferences in the West (and scientists from the West were permitted to attend conferences inside the Iron Curtain.

Sounds like someone in the executive branch doesn't want scientists to do their job. Wonder what they're afraid of?

1y agoHN ↗

Don't look up.

Eyes down and drill baby, drill.

1y agoHN ↗

Funny, very funny. Oil companies are refusing his request to drill more. They are not interested in political theatre.

1y agoHN ↗

We're officially in strange times when oil companies are the voice of reason.

1y agoHN ↗

What reason are you talking about?!? It's market prices.

1y agoHN ↗

I think "totalitarian" would be more accurate.

1y agoHN ↗

Every politician is always exclaiming "We are the greatest" and that becomes a problem when politicians actually start believing their own bullshit.

1y agoHN ↗

"The orders came from leaders of the National Marine Fisheries Service in all-staff meetings this week, "

The part is not the whole.