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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I will admit, though, that even I never imagined how bad
@GOP would become with respect to conspiracy theories and denying "inconvenient science." Even I never predicted that the GOP would one day become the political home for antivaxxers and deniers of a deadly pandemic. -
Perhaps an inference was possible for the GOP's dash towards blissful and necessary ignorance, as well as outright disinformation, as science (global climate change, evoluation) is a threat to the oil & gas industry, capitalism and a perceived threat to religion.
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Truly the GOP is the party of fairy tales!
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