It has been three months since I said goodbye to this website, which I announced right after Donald Trump secured the 2024 presidential race. But since then
I've received many emails (well, only a few dozen) from readers telling me to maintain it. More important to me, though, was the realization of how much work I've put into the site since I
began it in late 2004 and the countless scientific articles, family and personal remembrances, and political and religious posts the site has hosted over the past 20 years.
But I have several problems, now that I'm living in Naziland. One, posting anti-Trump material is likely to be ineffectual on one hand and personally hazardous on the other.
In addition, the status of unbiased science in America is not only being threatened by the Trump administration but also by the ongoing years-long spate of garbage
being promoted as scientific research. In short, I've lost interest in a lot of the stuff that motivated me for nearly 50 years.
Albert Einstein, Hermann Weyl and literally hundreds of German scientists left Germany in the 1930s following that country's takeover by the Nazis (you know,
the nation that gave the world the great minds of Hahn, Meitner, Bayer, Haber, Born, Heisenberg, Noether and Kepler, along with philosophers like Kant, Leibniz, Schiller, Goethe,
Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Wittgenstein). In a very real sense, Einstein and his close colleagues were lucky, as they had places to run to. In today's
world, no one wants Americans—celebrated or otherwise—because Trump has made our particular nationality something to despise and keep away. Just ask Canada.
As for what direction this site goes now, I have no idea.
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