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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Here’s my articlehttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-antiscience-movement-is-escalating-going-global-and-killing-thousands/ …
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I admire you to death, but you were too kind at one point. That part where you traced the antiscience of the
@GOP to 2015? Way too late! Go back a few decades, at least to the 1980s, but definitely in the 1990s, when Newt Gingrich got rid of the Office of Technology Assessment.3 replies 2 retweets 10 likes -
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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I think a lot of people whose friends are what they consider "reasonable Republicans" really don't understand the full depth of the antiscience, conspiracy theorist unreason that's increasingly gripped
@GOP over the last three decades.3 replies 3 retweets 17 likes
Similarly, a lot of "reasonable Republicans" are in denial about just how bad their party's gotten. The antiscience conspiracy nonsense and white supremacism predate Trump by decades. In fact, Trump could never have won @GOP nomination if there hadn't been fertile ground for him.
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