{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "(stable)=\n", "# Stable\n", " \n", "**Athena’s Filter, Dionysus’ Cry, and Apollo’s Mask: An Epistemic Dissection of Scientific Assault in Trump-Era Politics**\n", "\n", "The confrontation between state power and scientific independence is neither new nor uniquely American, but in the context of the Trump administration’s systematic undermining of research institutions, we must examine the clash through a mythopoetic lens—one framed not by neutrality, but by hunger, fury, and the aching need for beauty. If Dionysus symbolizes the unfiltered, anarchic truth—the screaming data, the toxic spill, the aerosolized virus—and Apollo is the patron of symmetry, lyricism, and comfort, then Athena is the necessary intermediary. Her helm does not merely protect; it refracts. Her spear is not just a weapon—it is an instrument of precision. In this trinity, science is neither Dionysian chaos nor Apollonian illusion. It is the Athenian filter applied to reality, disciplined into coherence without surrendering to delusion.\n", "\n", "```{raw} html\n", "\n", "\n", "
Semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, has been shown to reduce the risk of adverse cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes. Whether semaglutide can reduce cardiovascular risk associated with overweight and obesity in the absence of diabetes is unknown.
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