by There are many completely valid reasons to be skeptical about self -driving cars. Safety problems are very real, especially because even the most advanced robotaxi prototypes Don’t always put it right into what simple situations should beAnd that is before you throw bad weather in the comparison. There are also very real concerns about it what self -driving cars would do with cities And you cannot forget the pollution that still comes from brake and tire particles. But Ted Cruz? NPR reports He has done research into self-driving cars “Woke Dei” together with the other biggest threat of these nation-zons blackout.
Cruz recently released a database that he used for a report from October that claimed that more than 20 percent of the National Science Foundation budget went to “left -wing ideological crusades masked as” academic research. ” Cruz focused on 3,400 National Science Foundations that he was claiming advanced “neo-marxistic class-war propaganda.” It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so dangerous and scary. The report also contains a list of words that are forbidden, regardless of the context, because the defenders of freedom of expression cannot have that, they can.
Cruz also stopped not only with self -driving cars and solar eclipses. He sees waking up to hide every corner:
The database included research subsidies from all over the country, large research institutions and small colleges. The list contained projects aimed at finding better ways to synthesize new medicines; Study how self -driving vehicles make it safer; Research into how military service could help more women to pursue science career; Find out why some proteins start to mislead ways that can lead to cancer.
“It’s ridiculous,” says Joshua Weitz, a biologist at the University of Maryland whose research was not marked but who received NSF fairs. ‘[Cruz] Uses his position as a senator to make a major noise about fundamental research and the miscategory of what is going on in the research and technology sector in this country. If you look at this list, you will find things that we must be absolutely proud of financing. “
Many of the research proposals that are not at all related to Dei were probably marked because they include language about broadening the participation of women and under -represented groups in science, says Weitz, something that the NSF congress has considered in the subsidy since The nineties.
The Cruz office did not respond to several requests for comments. A press release in the database says: “Dei initiatives have poisoned research efforts, have eroded confidence in the scientific community and fueled the distribution among Americans … The congress must put an end to the politicization of NSF financing and repairing of the repair of The integrity for scientific research. “
Now no one has ever accused the Teddy boy of being a particularly sympathetic person. I even seem like a certain Mr. Donald J. Trump who once said: “He is a nasty man. Nobody likes him. Nobody in the congress likes him. Nobody likes him somewhere as soon as they get to know him. ‘Yet you would not think that even someone as visceral was disgusting as TED Cruz would not want other countries to deduct the US as the world leader in scientific research.
Except, that’s exactly what he does. Ted Cruz hates facts, winning and the American way. And yet Texas is still so gerrymandered, even harder votes will probably not be enough to get him out of office.
