On Tuesday famed climate scientist Kate Marvel joined the more than 10,000 people with PhDs in science, engineering and mathematics who, according to Science, are reported to have left the U.S. federal workforce since President Donald Trump took office in January.
“I thought I’d spend my entire career working at this wonderful place,” her letter stated. But she “never expected that science itself would come under attack, simply because it—like journalism, history, and even the best kind of art—is a way of seeking the truth. I’m leaving because I want to tell the truth.”
This was a satirical take on the state of mass-produced corporate television and film that attempt to bleed dry once great franchises in the name of corporate responsibility to shareholders above all else, which sought to link the Marvel franchise (owned by the Disney corporation) with the tenuous but valid link, of the superhero Ms Marvel, and the name of the PhD astronomer in the subject of this article who happens to be Dr Marvel.
It’s never as funny when you have to explain it though.