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chiasm

There is so much to be enraged about it is paralyzing. The conference I was just at was international, and conversations about scientific censorship, the US brain drain, fear for the future of NIH were interwoven in to the usual discussions of new findings etc.

I don't think anyone was held up from entry, though one Romanian grad student was held and questioned for 20 minutes before being released.

It's mind-blowing that we are now That Country you can't travel to safely.