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Forbidden planet: was Pluto’s 2006 demotion a big mistake?
(www.theguardian.com)
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This kind of thing just fuels the anti-science conservative agenda. Knock it off.
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It rejects science and calls back to "back in my day" folksy rhetoric as the only "evidence" that it should regain planetary status, and frames the entire change as a bureaucratic process being run by out of touch elites. It's conservative populism at it's finest. Straight out of their playbook.