Today @sciam I wrote on a coordinated antiscience campaign from the political right, together with Putin’s systematic weaponized health communication. I wrote how aggression against US scientists is front center to this policy. And right on cue...https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/03/29/full-text-of-trumps-statement-on-fauci-birx/ …
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If you want to know how far back and deep
@GOP antiscience rot goes, read@chriscmooney's "The Republican War on Science," which was written in 2005. http://www.waronscience.com/ -
A major reason why I left
@GOP in the early 2000s was because I had become fed up with its antiscience, anti-expertise stances, including antievolution, climate science denial, etc., etc. - Show replies
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Agreed--antiscience has played a tremendous role in denial of harmful effects of tobacco, on anti-environmental policies, and to a degree reproductive rights.
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Science is only valued when it doesn't interfere with short term profits. See this 2012 Scientific American article.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/antiscience-beliefs-jeopardize-us-democracy/ …
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Since I know you through interactions elsewhere, you’re more than just an ex-Republican, but you are a full-on progressive these days. I think pollsters and political scientists are missing how politics has reorganized itself in the USA.
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Wait Dr. G used to be Republican?
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