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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,085 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:32 PM Aug 2020

With string of attacks on doctors and experts, Trump takes aim at science: ANALYSIS

With the novel coronavirus pandemic impossible to ignore out of existence, President Donald Trump has found a new foil -- in science.

The Union of Concerned Scientists has documented 11 times across nine federal agencies when it says the Trump administration's attacks on science have directly undermined the federal government's response to the crisis, including the stalling of Centers of Disease Control and Prevention guidance and changing COVID-19 data collection services to be housed under the Department of Health and Human Services instead of the CDC.

It cites more than 150 attacks on science by the Trump administration since he took office from rolling back climate change safeguards to altering scientific content on federal websites.

"This is not normal. This is an egregious pattern of ignoring, sidelining, and censoring the voices of scientists and their research," wrote the organization's research analyst Anita Desikan in a blogpost Monday. "By shifting policymaking away from science-based decisionmaking, the Trump administration is prioritizing political concerns at the expense of all our health and safety."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/with-string-of-attacks-on-doctors-and-experts-trump-takes-aim-at-science-analysis/ar-BB17FdIy?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

Trump wants the GOP to stay "the stupid party".

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With string of attacks on doctors and experts, Trump takes aim at science: ANALYSIS (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
I think they were the stupid party I_UndergroundPanther Aug 2020 #1
Science Hurts God! (nt) mr_lebowski Aug 2020 #2
Hear! Hear! Laelth Aug 2020 #3

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
3. Hear! Hear!
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:59 PM
Aug 2020

But I can also hear Trump responding ...

“Scientists hurt God. Scientists hurt the Bible. Scientists are secret agents from Thighland that hate America and want to take away your guns. Scientists are Yo Semite cult members. Scientists all snort covfefe.”



Seriously. I have nothing for this loon.



-Laelth

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