I had never thought about that before, and it's so totally unfair. I do cancer research. I am allowed - even expected - to hate cancer and love life. But you're not allowed to love the planet because your work is inconvenient to the parasite class? Fuck that. 2/

April 08, 2026 - 14:43 UTC

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Scientists MUST love what they study. If we didn't, we would never survive all the absolute bullshit we have to endure to get to study it in the first place. When, as a student, you find the topic you're "meant to" study, it's like falling in love. You want to know everything about it. 3/
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Your mind becomes hungry. That's what drives science forward. This is not a job that you leave at the office at 5:00. But they want to weaponize that love to cast doubt on your conclusions? The conclusions you trained for more than a decade to be able to draw? 4/
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