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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Replying to @PeterHotez
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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Replying to @skepticalraptor @gorskon and
Wait Dr. G used to be Republican?
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Replying to @DesireeSeattle @skepticalraptor and
You haven't been paying attention to my Twitter feed, have you?
I've Tweeted many times over the years how I was very conservative in the 1980s, but over the course of the 1990s became increasingly disgusted with @GOP until finally the invasion of Iraq was the last straw.3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @DesireeSeattle and
Now you’re a full-on commie!!!
Except with all of the @Apple gadgets.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Not quite. I'm still not particularly a fan of Bernie Sanders. 
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