The words: “shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits.” (1)
Were once verboten on TV; their use gave censors fits.
But that was fifty years ago; comedians were jailed.
Today we may hear most of them; such censorship has failed.

Pope Donald’s Inquisition now gives science a new list: (2)
They can’t use, “DEI, transgender, fetus;” censors all insist.
Hypotheses may not be “evidence” or “science-based,”
For Donald has decreed such concepts all must be erased.

We can’t consider “vulnerable” or “entitlement,”
Can’t advocate “diversity” or “women” complement
Researchers in our most prestigious universities,
And, God forbid, those H1Bs, all speaking Cantonese. (3)

Considering the Church and scientists of long ago:
Copernicus and Galileo weren’t simpatico
With what the Church pronounced: in this case, how the planets moved, (4)
It’s now the treatment of disease that Trump has not approved.

Good scientists, like Fauci, at the NIH, opposed
Quack remedies for Covid that Trump carelessly proposed.
Trump’s base did not like vaccines; so, Trump gave us RFK.
If H5N1 mutates, it will be a runaway.

When Lenny Bruce and Carlin used “bad words” in their routines,
The Church and politicians felt a threat to their machines.
Now Donald Trump views scientists as threatening his sway;
Their data and their expertise are standing in his way.

Do we think that George Carlin would say, “Trump is full of shit?”
Most scientists believe that, as they privately admit.
The Church once burned its heretics, though Donald won’t do that.
But he might make you unemployed, if you’re a Democrat.

(1) Look up George Carlin’s routines on: “The seven words you can’t say on TV.”
(2) These are words and concepts you can’t use at the CDC in grant applications.
(3) The H1B visa is granted to foreigners to come to the US and work in “specialty occupations,” usually science.
(4) Nicholas Copernicus, about 1514, and Galileo Galilei, about 1632, proposed and defended, with evidence, the idea that the Sun, not the Earth was the center of the Solar system. The Church was not amused.