• PlantJam@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The science includes gender (“male flies”), I could absolutely see the program getting cut just for that.

    • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.works
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      24 hours ago

      Wouldn’t even have to be that. It’s just the type of thing they love to target like the studying shrimp on a treadmill John Oliver recently exposed they love to trot out. The more ridiculous they can make it sound in a one liner, the worse they can paint it as government waste and stupid science.