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The president\u2019s anti-science cult represents the nadir of a long tradition of conspiracy-loving wingnuts from the fringes of American conservatism<\/span><\/h3>\n <\/p>\n
What kind of buffoon brags about taking a drug that could kill him?<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Among the many ailments\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0has inflicted on his own country \u2013 not to mention the rest of the world \u2013 there may be something even worse than hydroxycholoroquine.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Yes, it\u2019s bad that he claims to be taking an anti-malarial that his own Food and Drug Administration\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0is unsafe and ineffective to treat Covid-19.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Yes, it\u2019s astonishing that Trump\u2019s tools forced out of office an\u00a0actual<\/a>\u00a0vaccine expert because he dared to question the president\u2019s love of an unproven drug.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nBut it\u2019s even worse that he is a one-man delivery vehicle for a dunce cult that denies science.<\/h4>\nWe\u2019re not just talking about the presidential brainwaves that bounced around the world, hitting bodies with very\u00a0powerful<\/a>\u00a0light or bleaching patients \u201cby injection inside or almost a cleaning\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s anti-science cult does not begin with quack remedies for a pandemic, and it does not even begin with him.<\/h4>\nHe represents the nadir of a long tradition of conspiracy-loving wingnuts who used to populate the fringes of the American conservative movement. Over the last half-century they have moved steadily into the mainstream of the Republican party, where their fact-free fairytales about the evil establishment have found a natural home in the cranium of the 45th president.<\/h4>\nIn this age of hyper-connected ignorance, there are no independent experts and there are no true facts. Your scientific theories are equal to my Twitter theories, just as your FBI investigation into Russia is equal to Rudy\u2019s supposed\u00a0investigation<\/a>\u00a0into Ukraine. All opinions are equal, but\u00a0some<\/a>\u00a0are more equal than others.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
How can you deny this democracy of dunces when there are supposedly experts on both sides? Brad Parscale, the Ferrari-driving Trump campaign manager, slapped down the science of Covid-19 cures by citing the work of a respectable-sounding group of doctors.<\/h4>\n\u201cThe press is going nuts over @realDonaldTrump taking hydroxychloroquine (prescribed by doctor). Of course, if he\u2019s doing it, they must oppose it,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday. \u201cBut the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons says otherwise.\u201d<\/h4>\nParscale linked to a\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0on the AAPS website about the group\u2019s letter to the Arizona governor\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0its own \u201cfrequently updated table of studies\u201d of the drug, claiming it has \u201cabout [a] 90% chance of helping Covid-19 patients\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
What kind of crazy medical cabal is keeping such a powerful drug from dying patients?<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
The AAPS has a long record of exposing the obvious malevolence of mainstream medicine as part of its mission to keep government out of healthcare. It took a bold stand against the science that HIV causes Aids,\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0\u201cofficial reports and the peer-reviewed literature\u201d.<\/h4>\nIt also\u00a0blew open<\/a>\u00a0the science of how Barack Obama was using mass hypnosis to bamboozle voters with his fancy speeches. Apparently the O of his campaign logo resembled a crystal ball, which explains why so many Jews supported Obama. If you think that\u2019s crazy, you should take a look at \u201ca 66-page extensively footnoted but unsigned article\u201d that inspired the AAPS article.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
The AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0fewer than 5,000 members, compared with more than 220,000 members of its arch-enemy, the American Medical Association. But it\u2019s quality, not quantity that counts. Among its past members, the AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0Rand Paul, the ophthalmologist who now serves as one of the few doctors in the US Senate. His kooky libertarian father Ron, a former OB-GYN, was also a member.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nThere\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This is a shame because there are\u00a0only<\/a>\u00a017 doctors among the 535 members of Congress, and 14 of them are Republicans at a time when the nation and the world would appreciate some informed medical opinions in the middle of a once-in-a-generation pandemic.<\/h4>\nInstead, there\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy. Before the pandemic struck,\u00a0recent polling<\/a>\u00a0showed that just 43% of Republicans think that scientists should play an active role in policy debates, compared with 73% of Democrats.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Even fewer Republicans \u2013 34% \u2013 think scientists are any better at making decisions about science policy than you or me.<\/h4>\nThese opinions did not crawl out of the primordial soup on their own. They have evolved over time in a warm bath of fringe conspiracy groups that have spent decades fighting against the teaching of evolution, among other social evils. One of those groups was Phyllis Schlafly\u2019s Eagle Forum, which\u00a0worked<\/a>\u00a0to push evolution out of the classroom, almost as doggedly as\u00a0Mrs America<\/a>\u00a0fought against women\u2019s rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no surprise to find her son Andrew\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0as general counsel to the AAPS. Among other projects, Andrew Schlafly founded a conservative alternative to Wikipedia, to correct its \u201cliberal\u00a0bias<\/a>\u201d on things like evolution.<\/h4>\nSchlafly\u2019s group was not alone; its brother-in-arms was the anti-commie, anti-civil rights John Birch Society, which Phyllis somehow believed was\u00a0not sufficiently<\/a>\u00a0concerned about the Soviet Union.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Today the Birchers believe that among the many globalist plots against America \u2013 led by the UN of course \u2013 is a vast scientific conspiracy. The biggest one, naturally, is the supposed science about the climate crisis. But if you\u2019re at all confused, the Birchers\u2019 website cites \u201cconspiracy\u201d as the first thing that bothers them about science.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cBy definition, a conspiracy is when two or more people work in secret for evil purposes. The John Birch Society believes this definition fits a number of groups working against the independence of the United States,\u201d its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0declares about science. \u201cExtensive study has shown us that history is rarely accidental.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Extensive studies are everywhere if you know where to look. It was no accident of history that Barack Obama recently tried to hypnotize young Americans by warning that the fools who ignored the pandemic were also ignoring the climate crisis.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford any more consequences of climate denial.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
His successor is immune to this kind of mind control known as logic, especially when it comes to testing for Covid-19. For Trump, the number of tests is both a remarkable triumph \u2013 the biggest in the world \u2013 and also a remarkable admission of failure. You see, if you test more, you find more sickness. It\u2019s like a scientific plot conspiring against him, much like the negative hydroxy study that he\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca Trump-enemy statement\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing testing, you\u2019re finding people,\u201d he explained to a couple of governors and reporters on Wednesday, before bragging again that the US was testing more people than Germany and South Korea. \u201cSo we\u2019re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, \u2018You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.\u2019 Well, if we didn\u2019t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn\u2019t have very many cases.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This was a genius strategy, first perfected by a teenager hiding under his bed covers to avoid homework. But then one of those fake news reporters asked Trump about a per capita comparison with countries like Germany and South Korea.<\/h4>\n\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
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Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\n
Yes, it\u2019s bad that he claims to be taking an anti-malarial that his own Food and Drug Administration\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0is unsafe and ineffective to treat Covid-19.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Yes, it\u2019s astonishing that Trump\u2019s tools forced out of office an\u00a0actual<\/a>\u00a0vaccine expert because he dared to question the president\u2019s love of an unproven drug.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nBut it\u2019s even worse that he is a one-man delivery vehicle for a dunce cult that denies science.<\/h4>\nWe\u2019re not just talking about the presidential brainwaves that bounced around the world, hitting bodies with very\u00a0powerful<\/a>\u00a0light or bleaching patients \u201cby injection inside or almost a cleaning\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s anti-science cult does not begin with quack remedies for a pandemic, and it does not even begin with him.<\/h4>\nHe represents the nadir of a long tradition of conspiracy-loving wingnuts who used to populate the fringes of the American conservative movement. Over the last half-century they have moved steadily into the mainstream of the Republican party, where their fact-free fairytales about the evil establishment have found a natural home in the cranium of the 45th president.<\/h4>\nIn this age of hyper-connected ignorance, there are no independent experts and there are no true facts. Your scientific theories are equal to my Twitter theories, just as your FBI investigation into Russia is equal to Rudy\u2019s supposed\u00a0investigation<\/a>\u00a0into Ukraine. All opinions are equal, but\u00a0some<\/a>\u00a0are more equal than others.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
How can you deny this democracy of dunces when there are supposedly experts on both sides? Brad Parscale, the Ferrari-driving Trump campaign manager, slapped down the science of Covid-19 cures by citing the work of a respectable-sounding group of doctors.<\/h4>\n\u201cThe press is going nuts over @realDonaldTrump taking hydroxychloroquine (prescribed by doctor). Of course, if he\u2019s doing it, they must oppose it,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday. \u201cBut the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons says otherwise.\u201d<\/h4>\nParscale linked to a\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0on the AAPS website about the group\u2019s letter to the Arizona governor\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0its own \u201cfrequently updated table of studies\u201d of the drug, claiming it has \u201cabout [a] 90% chance of helping Covid-19 patients\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
What kind of crazy medical cabal is keeping such a powerful drug from dying patients?<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
The AAPS has a long record of exposing the obvious malevolence of mainstream medicine as part of its mission to keep government out of healthcare. It took a bold stand against the science that HIV causes Aids,\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0\u201cofficial reports and the peer-reviewed literature\u201d.<\/h4>\nIt also\u00a0blew open<\/a>\u00a0the science of how Barack Obama was using mass hypnosis to bamboozle voters with his fancy speeches. Apparently the O of his campaign logo resembled a crystal ball, which explains why so many Jews supported Obama. If you think that\u2019s crazy, you should take a look at \u201ca 66-page extensively footnoted but unsigned article\u201d that inspired the AAPS article.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
The AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0fewer than 5,000 members, compared with more than 220,000 members of its arch-enemy, the American Medical Association. But it\u2019s quality, not quantity that counts. Among its past members, the AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0Rand Paul, the ophthalmologist who now serves as one of the few doctors in the US Senate. His kooky libertarian father Ron, a former OB-GYN, was also a member.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nThere\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This is a shame because there are\u00a0only<\/a>\u00a017 doctors among the 535 members of Congress, and 14 of them are Republicans at a time when the nation and the world would appreciate some informed medical opinions in the middle of a once-in-a-generation pandemic.<\/h4>\nInstead, there\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy. Before the pandemic struck,\u00a0recent polling<\/a>\u00a0showed that just 43% of Republicans think that scientists should play an active role in policy debates, compared with 73% of Democrats.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Even fewer Republicans \u2013 34% \u2013 think scientists are any better at making decisions about science policy than you or me.<\/h4>\nThese opinions did not crawl out of the primordial soup on their own. They have evolved over time in a warm bath of fringe conspiracy groups that have spent decades fighting against the teaching of evolution, among other social evils. One of those groups was Phyllis Schlafly\u2019s Eagle Forum, which\u00a0worked<\/a>\u00a0to push evolution out of the classroom, almost as doggedly as\u00a0Mrs America<\/a>\u00a0fought against women\u2019s rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no surprise to find her son Andrew\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0as general counsel to the AAPS. Among other projects, Andrew Schlafly founded a conservative alternative to Wikipedia, to correct its \u201cliberal\u00a0bias<\/a>\u201d on things like evolution.<\/h4>\nSchlafly\u2019s group was not alone; its brother-in-arms was the anti-commie, anti-civil rights John Birch Society, which Phyllis somehow believed was\u00a0not sufficiently<\/a>\u00a0concerned about the Soviet Union.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Today the Birchers believe that among the many globalist plots against America \u2013 led by the UN of course \u2013 is a vast scientific conspiracy. The biggest one, naturally, is the supposed science about the climate crisis. But if you\u2019re at all confused, the Birchers\u2019 website cites \u201cconspiracy\u201d as the first thing that bothers them about science.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cBy definition, a conspiracy is when two or more people work in secret for evil purposes. The John Birch Society believes this definition fits a number of groups working against the independence of the United States,\u201d its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0declares about science. \u201cExtensive study has shown us that history is rarely accidental.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Extensive studies are everywhere if you know where to look. It was no accident of history that Barack Obama recently tried to hypnotize young Americans by warning that the fools who ignored the pandemic were also ignoring the climate crisis.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford any more consequences of climate denial.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
His successor is immune to this kind of mind control known as logic, especially when it comes to testing for Covid-19. For Trump, the number of tests is both a remarkable triumph \u2013 the biggest in the world \u2013 and also a remarkable admission of failure. You see, if you test more, you find more sickness. It\u2019s like a scientific plot conspiring against him, much like the negative hydroxy study that he\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca Trump-enemy statement\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing testing, you\u2019re finding people,\u201d he explained to a couple of governors and reporters on Wednesday, before bragging again that the US was testing more people than Germany and South Korea. \u201cSo we\u2019re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, \u2018You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.\u2019 Well, if we didn\u2019t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn\u2019t have very many cases.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This was a genius strategy, first perfected by a teenager hiding under his bed covers to avoid homework. But then one of those fake news reporters asked Trump about a per capita comparison with countries like Germany and South Korea.<\/h4>\n\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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<\/h4>\nBut it\u2019s even worse that he is a one-man delivery vehicle for a dunce cult that denies science.<\/h4>\nWe\u2019re not just talking about the presidential brainwaves that bounced around the world, hitting bodies with very\u00a0powerful<\/a>\u00a0light or bleaching patients \u201cby injection inside or almost a cleaning\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s anti-science cult does not begin with quack remedies for a pandemic, and it does not even begin with him.<\/h4>\nHe represents the nadir of a long tradition of conspiracy-loving wingnuts who used to populate the fringes of the American conservative movement. Over the last half-century they have moved steadily into the mainstream of the Republican party, where their fact-free fairytales about the evil establishment have found a natural home in the cranium of the 45th president.<\/h4>\nIn this age of hyper-connected ignorance, there are no independent experts and there are no true facts. Your scientific theories are equal to my Twitter theories, just as your FBI investigation into Russia is equal to Rudy\u2019s supposed\u00a0investigation<\/a>\u00a0into Ukraine. All opinions are equal, but\u00a0some<\/a>\u00a0are more equal than others.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
How can you deny this democracy of dunces when there are supposedly experts on both sides? Brad Parscale, the Ferrari-driving Trump campaign manager, slapped down the science of Covid-19 cures by citing the work of a respectable-sounding group of doctors.<\/h4>\n\u201cThe press is going nuts over @realDonaldTrump taking hydroxychloroquine (prescribed by doctor). Of course, if he\u2019s doing it, they must oppose it,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday. \u201cBut the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons says otherwise.\u201d<\/h4>\nParscale linked to a\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0on the AAPS website about the group\u2019s letter to the Arizona governor\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0its own \u201cfrequently updated table of studies\u201d of the drug, claiming it has \u201cabout [a] 90% chance of helping Covid-19 patients\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
What kind of crazy medical cabal is keeping such a powerful drug from dying patients?<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
The AAPS has a long record of exposing the obvious malevolence of mainstream medicine as part of its mission to keep government out of healthcare. It took a bold stand against the science that HIV causes Aids,\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0\u201cofficial reports and the peer-reviewed literature\u201d.<\/h4>\nIt also\u00a0blew open<\/a>\u00a0the science of how Barack Obama was using mass hypnosis to bamboozle voters with his fancy speeches. Apparently the O of his campaign logo resembled a crystal ball, which explains why so many Jews supported Obama. If you think that\u2019s crazy, you should take a look at \u201ca 66-page extensively footnoted but unsigned article\u201d that inspired the AAPS article.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
The AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0fewer than 5,000 members, compared with more than 220,000 members of its arch-enemy, the American Medical Association. But it\u2019s quality, not quantity that counts. Among its past members, the AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0Rand Paul, the ophthalmologist who now serves as one of the few doctors in the US Senate. His kooky libertarian father Ron, a former OB-GYN, was also a member.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nThere\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This is a shame because there are\u00a0only<\/a>\u00a017 doctors among the 535 members of Congress, and 14 of them are Republicans at a time when the nation and the world would appreciate some informed medical opinions in the middle of a once-in-a-generation pandemic.<\/h4>\nInstead, there\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy. Before the pandemic struck,\u00a0recent polling<\/a>\u00a0showed that just 43% of Republicans think that scientists should play an active role in policy debates, compared with 73% of Democrats.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Even fewer Republicans \u2013 34% \u2013 think scientists are any better at making decisions about science policy than you or me.<\/h4>\nThese opinions did not crawl out of the primordial soup on their own. They have evolved over time in a warm bath of fringe conspiracy groups that have spent decades fighting against the teaching of evolution, among other social evils. One of those groups was Phyllis Schlafly\u2019s Eagle Forum, which\u00a0worked<\/a>\u00a0to push evolution out of the classroom, almost as doggedly as\u00a0Mrs America<\/a>\u00a0fought against women\u2019s rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no surprise to find her son Andrew\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0as general counsel to the AAPS. Among other projects, Andrew Schlafly founded a conservative alternative to Wikipedia, to correct its \u201cliberal\u00a0bias<\/a>\u201d on things like evolution.<\/h4>\nSchlafly\u2019s group was not alone; its brother-in-arms was the anti-commie, anti-civil rights John Birch Society, which Phyllis somehow believed was\u00a0not sufficiently<\/a>\u00a0concerned about the Soviet Union.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Today the Birchers believe that among the many globalist plots against America \u2013 led by the UN of course \u2013 is a vast scientific conspiracy. The biggest one, naturally, is the supposed science about the climate crisis. But if you\u2019re at all confused, the Birchers\u2019 website cites \u201cconspiracy\u201d as the first thing that bothers them about science.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cBy definition, a conspiracy is when two or more people work in secret for evil purposes. The John Birch Society believes this definition fits a number of groups working against the independence of the United States,\u201d its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0declares about science. \u201cExtensive study has shown us that history is rarely accidental.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Extensive studies are everywhere if you know where to look. It was no accident of history that Barack Obama recently tried to hypnotize young Americans by warning that the fools who ignored the pandemic were also ignoring the climate crisis.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford any more consequences of climate denial.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
His successor is immune to this kind of mind control known as logic, especially when it comes to testing for Covid-19. For Trump, the number of tests is both a remarkable triumph \u2013 the biggest in the world \u2013 and also a remarkable admission of failure. You see, if you test more, you find more sickness. It\u2019s like a scientific plot conspiring against him, much like the negative hydroxy study that he\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca Trump-enemy statement\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing testing, you\u2019re finding people,\u201d he explained to a couple of governors and reporters on Wednesday, before bragging again that the US was testing more people than Germany and South Korea. \u201cSo we\u2019re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, \u2018You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.\u2019 Well, if we didn\u2019t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn\u2019t have very many cases.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This was a genius strategy, first perfected by a teenager hiding under his bed covers to avoid homework. But then one of those fake news reporters asked Trump about a per capita comparison with countries like Germany and South Korea.<\/h4>\n\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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We\u2019re not just talking about the presidential brainwaves that bounced around the world, hitting bodies with very\u00a0powerful<\/a>\u00a0light or bleaching patients \u201cby injection inside or almost a cleaning\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s anti-science cult does not begin with quack remedies for a pandemic, and it does not even begin with him.<\/h4>\nHe represents the nadir of a long tradition of conspiracy-loving wingnuts who used to populate the fringes of the American conservative movement. Over the last half-century they have moved steadily into the mainstream of the Republican party, where their fact-free fairytales about the evil establishment have found a natural home in the cranium of the 45th president.<\/h4>\nIn this age of hyper-connected ignorance, there are no independent experts and there are no true facts. Your scientific theories are equal to my Twitter theories, just as your FBI investigation into Russia is equal to Rudy\u2019s supposed\u00a0investigation<\/a>\u00a0into Ukraine. All opinions are equal, but\u00a0some<\/a>\u00a0are more equal than others.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
How can you deny this democracy of dunces when there are supposedly experts on both sides? Brad Parscale, the Ferrari-driving Trump campaign manager, slapped down the science of Covid-19 cures by citing the work of a respectable-sounding group of doctors.<\/h4>\n\u201cThe press is going nuts over @realDonaldTrump taking hydroxychloroquine (prescribed by doctor). Of course, if he\u2019s doing it, they must oppose it,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday. \u201cBut the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons says otherwise.\u201d<\/h4>\nParscale linked to a\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0on the AAPS website about the group\u2019s letter to the Arizona governor\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0its own \u201cfrequently updated table of studies\u201d of the drug, claiming it has \u201cabout [a] 90% chance of helping Covid-19 patients\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
What kind of crazy medical cabal is keeping such a powerful drug from dying patients?<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
The AAPS has a long record of exposing the obvious malevolence of mainstream medicine as part of its mission to keep government out of healthcare. It took a bold stand against the science that HIV causes Aids,\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0\u201cofficial reports and the peer-reviewed literature\u201d.<\/h4>\nIt also\u00a0blew open<\/a>\u00a0the science of how Barack Obama was using mass hypnosis to bamboozle voters with his fancy speeches. Apparently the O of his campaign logo resembled a crystal ball, which explains why so many Jews supported Obama. If you think that\u2019s crazy, you should take a look at \u201ca 66-page extensively footnoted but unsigned article\u201d that inspired the AAPS article.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
The AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0fewer than 5,000 members, compared with more than 220,000 members of its arch-enemy, the American Medical Association. But it\u2019s quality, not quantity that counts. Among its past members, the AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0Rand Paul, the ophthalmologist who now serves as one of the few doctors in the US Senate. His kooky libertarian father Ron, a former OB-GYN, was also a member.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nThere\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This is a shame because there are\u00a0only<\/a>\u00a017 doctors among the 535 members of Congress, and 14 of them are Republicans at a time when the nation and the world would appreciate some informed medical opinions in the middle of a once-in-a-generation pandemic.<\/h4>\nInstead, there\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy. Before the pandemic struck,\u00a0recent polling<\/a>\u00a0showed that just 43% of Republicans think that scientists should play an active role in policy debates, compared with 73% of Democrats.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Even fewer Republicans \u2013 34% \u2013 think scientists are any better at making decisions about science policy than you or me.<\/h4>\nThese opinions did not crawl out of the primordial soup on their own. They have evolved over time in a warm bath of fringe conspiracy groups that have spent decades fighting against the teaching of evolution, among other social evils. One of those groups was Phyllis Schlafly\u2019s Eagle Forum, which\u00a0worked<\/a>\u00a0to push evolution out of the classroom, almost as doggedly as\u00a0Mrs America<\/a>\u00a0fought against women\u2019s rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no surprise to find her son Andrew\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0as general counsel to the AAPS. Among other projects, Andrew Schlafly founded a conservative alternative to Wikipedia, to correct its \u201cliberal\u00a0bias<\/a>\u201d on things like evolution.<\/h4>\nSchlafly\u2019s group was not alone; its brother-in-arms was the anti-commie, anti-civil rights John Birch Society, which Phyllis somehow believed was\u00a0not sufficiently<\/a>\u00a0concerned about the Soviet Union.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Today the Birchers believe that among the many globalist plots against America \u2013 led by the UN of course \u2013 is a vast scientific conspiracy. The biggest one, naturally, is the supposed science about the climate crisis. But if you\u2019re at all confused, the Birchers\u2019 website cites \u201cconspiracy\u201d as the first thing that bothers them about science.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cBy definition, a conspiracy is when two or more people work in secret for evil purposes. The John Birch Society believes this definition fits a number of groups working against the independence of the United States,\u201d its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0declares about science. \u201cExtensive study has shown us that history is rarely accidental.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Extensive studies are everywhere if you know where to look. It was no accident of history that Barack Obama recently tried to hypnotize young Americans by warning that the fools who ignored the pandemic were also ignoring the climate crisis.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford any more consequences of climate denial.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
His successor is immune to this kind of mind control known as logic, especially when it comes to testing for Covid-19. For Trump, the number of tests is both a remarkable triumph \u2013 the biggest in the world \u2013 and also a remarkable admission of failure. You see, if you test more, you find more sickness. It\u2019s like a scientific plot conspiring against him, much like the negative hydroxy study that he\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca Trump-enemy statement\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing testing, you\u2019re finding people,\u201d he explained to a couple of governors and reporters on Wednesday, before bragging again that the US was testing more people than Germany and South Korea. \u201cSo we\u2019re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, \u2018You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.\u2019 Well, if we didn\u2019t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn\u2019t have very many cases.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This was a genius strategy, first perfected by a teenager hiding under his bed covers to avoid homework. But then one of those fake news reporters asked Trump about a per capita comparison with countries like Germany and South Korea.<\/h4>\n\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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He represents the nadir of a long tradition of conspiracy-loving wingnuts who used to populate the fringes of the American conservative movement. Over the last half-century they have moved steadily into the mainstream of the Republican party, where their fact-free fairytales about the evil establishment have found a natural home in the cranium of the 45th president.<\/h4>\nIn this age of hyper-connected ignorance, there are no independent experts and there are no true facts. Your scientific theories are equal to my Twitter theories, just as your FBI investigation into Russia is equal to Rudy\u2019s supposed\u00a0investigation<\/a>\u00a0into Ukraine. All opinions are equal, but\u00a0some<\/a>\u00a0are more equal than others.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
How can you deny this democracy of dunces when there are supposedly experts on both sides? Brad Parscale, the Ferrari-driving Trump campaign manager, slapped down the science of Covid-19 cures by citing the work of a respectable-sounding group of doctors.<\/h4>\n\u201cThe press is going nuts over @realDonaldTrump taking hydroxychloroquine (prescribed by doctor). Of course, if he\u2019s doing it, they must oppose it,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday. \u201cBut the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons says otherwise.\u201d<\/h4>\nParscale linked to a\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0on the AAPS website about the group\u2019s letter to the Arizona governor\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0its own \u201cfrequently updated table of studies\u201d of the drug, claiming it has \u201cabout [a] 90% chance of helping Covid-19 patients\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
What kind of crazy medical cabal is keeping such a powerful drug from dying patients?<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
The AAPS has a long record of exposing the obvious malevolence of mainstream medicine as part of its mission to keep government out of healthcare. It took a bold stand against the science that HIV causes Aids,\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0\u201cofficial reports and the peer-reviewed literature\u201d.<\/h4>\nIt also\u00a0blew open<\/a>\u00a0the science of how Barack Obama was using mass hypnosis to bamboozle voters with his fancy speeches. Apparently the O of his campaign logo resembled a crystal ball, which explains why so many Jews supported Obama. If you think that\u2019s crazy, you should take a look at \u201ca 66-page extensively footnoted but unsigned article\u201d that inspired the AAPS article.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
The AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0fewer than 5,000 members, compared with more than 220,000 members of its arch-enemy, the American Medical Association. But it\u2019s quality, not quantity that counts. Among its past members, the AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0Rand Paul, the ophthalmologist who now serves as one of the few doctors in the US Senate. His kooky libertarian father Ron, a former OB-GYN, was also a member.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nThere\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This is a shame because there are\u00a0only<\/a>\u00a017 doctors among the 535 members of Congress, and 14 of them are Republicans at a time when the nation and the world would appreciate some informed medical opinions in the middle of a once-in-a-generation pandemic.<\/h4>\nInstead, there\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy. Before the pandemic struck,\u00a0recent polling<\/a>\u00a0showed that just 43% of Republicans think that scientists should play an active role in policy debates, compared with 73% of Democrats.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Even fewer Republicans \u2013 34% \u2013 think scientists are any better at making decisions about science policy than you or me.<\/h4>\nThese opinions did not crawl out of the primordial soup on their own. They have evolved over time in a warm bath of fringe conspiracy groups that have spent decades fighting against the teaching of evolution, among other social evils. One of those groups was Phyllis Schlafly\u2019s Eagle Forum, which\u00a0worked<\/a>\u00a0to push evolution out of the classroom, almost as doggedly as\u00a0Mrs America<\/a>\u00a0fought against women\u2019s rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no surprise to find her son Andrew\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0as general counsel to the AAPS. Among other projects, Andrew Schlafly founded a conservative alternative to Wikipedia, to correct its \u201cliberal\u00a0bias<\/a>\u201d on things like evolution.<\/h4>\nSchlafly\u2019s group was not alone; its brother-in-arms was the anti-commie, anti-civil rights John Birch Society, which Phyllis somehow believed was\u00a0not sufficiently<\/a>\u00a0concerned about the Soviet Union.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Today the Birchers believe that among the many globalist plots against America \u2013 led by the UN of course \u2013 is a vast scientific conspiracy. The biggest one, naturally, is the supposed science about the climate crisis. But if you\u2019re at all confused, the Birchers\u2019 website cites \u201cconspiracy\u201d as the first thing that bothers them about science.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cBy definition, a conspiracy is when two or more people work in secret for evil purposes. The John Birch Society believes this definition fits a number of groups working against the independence of the United States,\u201d its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0declares about science. \u201cExtensive study has shown us that history is rarely accidental.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Extensive studies are everywhere if you know where to look. It was no accident of history that Barack Obama recently tried to hypnotize young Americans by warning that the fools who ignored the pandemic were also ignoring the climate crisis.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford any more consequences of climate denial.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
His successor is immune to this kind of mind control known as logic, especially when it comes to testing for Covid-19. For Trump, the number of tests is both a remarkable triumph \u2013 the biggest in the world \u2013 and also a remarkable admission of failure. You see, if you test more, you find more sickness. It\u2019s like a scientific plot conspiring against him, much like the negative hydroxy study that he\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca Trump-enemy statement\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing testing, you\u2019re finding people,\u201d he explained to a couple of governors and reporters on Wednesday, before bragging again that the US was testing more people than Germany and South Korea. \u201cSo we\u2019re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, \u2018You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.\u2019 Well, if we didn\u2019t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn\u2019t have very many cases.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This was a genius strategy, first perfected by a teenager hiding under his bed covers to avoid homework. But then one of those fake news reporters asked Trump about a per capita comparison with countries like Germany and South Korea.<\/h4>\n\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\n
How can you deny this democracy of dunces when there are supposedly experts on both sides? Brad Parscale, the Ferrari-driving Trump campaign manager, slapped down the science of Covid-19 cures by citing the work of a respectable-sounding group of doctors.<\/h4>\n\u201cThe press is going nuts over @realDonaldTrump taking hydroxychloroquine (prescribed by doctor). Of course, if he\u2019s doing it, they must oppose it,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday. \u201cBut the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons says otherwise.\u201d<\/h4>\nParscale linked to a\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0on the AAPS website about the group\u2019s letter to the Arizona governor\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0its own \u201cfrequently updated table of studies\u201d of the drug, claiming it has \u201cabout [a] 90% chance of helping Covid-19 patients\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
What kind of crazy medical cabal is keeping such a powerful drug from dying patients?<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
The AAPS has a long record of exposing the obvious malevolence of mainstream medicine as part of its mission to keep government out of healthcare. It took a bold stand against the science that HIV causes Aids,\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0\u201cofficial reports and the peer-reviewed literature\u201d.<\/h4>\nIt also\u00a0blew open<\/a>\u00a0the science of how Barack Obama was using mass hypnosis to bamboozle voters with his fancy speeches. Apparently the O of his campaign logo resembled a crystal ball, which explains why so many Jews supported Obama. If you think that\u2019s crazy, you should take a look at \u201ca 66-page extensively footnoted but unsigned article\u201d that inspired the AAPS article.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
The AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0fewer than 5,000 members, compared with more than 220,000 members of its arch-enemy, the American Medical Association. But it\u2019s quality, not quantity that counts. Among its past members, the AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0Rand Paul, the ophthalmologist who now serves as one of the few doctors in the US Senate. His kooky libertarian father Ron, a former OB-GYN, was also a member.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nThere\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This is a shame because there are\u00a0only<\/a>\u00a017 doctors among the 535 members of Congress, and 14 of them are Republicans at a time when the nation and the world would appreciate some informed medical opinions in the middle of a once-in-a-generation pandemic.<\/h4>\nInstead, there\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy. Before the pandemic struck,\u00a0recent polling<\/a>\u00a0showed that just 43% of Republicans think that scientists should play an active role in policy debates, compared with 73% of Democrats.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Even fewer Republicans \u2013 34% \u2013 think scientists are any better at making decisions about science policy than you or me.<\/h4>\nThese opinions did not crawl out of the primordial soup on their own. They have evolved over time in a warm bath of fringe conspiracy groups that have spent decades fighting against the teaching of evolution, among other social evils. One of those groups was Phyllis Schlafly\u2019s Eagle Forum, which\u00a0worked<\/a>\u00a0to push evolution out of the classroom, almost as doggedly as\u00a0Mrs America<\/a>\u00a0fought against women\u2019s rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no surprise to find her son Andrew\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0as general counsel to the AAPS. Among other projects, Andrew Schlafly founded a conservative alternative to Wikipedia, to correct its \u201cliberal\u00a0bias<\/a>\u201d on things like evolution.<\/h4>\nSchlafly\u2019s group was not alone; its brother-in-arms was the anti-commie, anti-civil rights John Birch Society, which Phyllis somehow believed was\u00a0not sufficiently<\/a>\u00a0concerned about the Soviet Union.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Today the Birchers believe that among the many globalist plots against America \u2013 led by the UN of course \u2013 is a vast scientific conspiracy. The biggest one, naturally, is the supposed science about the climate crisis. But if you\u2019re at all confused, the Birchers\u2019 website cites \u201cconspiracy\u201d as the first thing that bothers them about science.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cBy definition, a conspiracy is when two or more people work in secret for evil purposes. The John Birch Society believes this definition fits a number of groups working against the independence of the United States,\u201d its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0declares about science. \u201cExtensive study has shown us that history is rarely accidental.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Extensive studies are everywhere if you know where to look. It was no accident of history that Barack Obama recently tried to hypnotize young Americans by warning that the fools who ignored the pandemic were also ignoring the climate crisis.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford any more consequences of climate denial.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
His successor is immune to this kind of mind control known as logic, especially when it comes to testing for Covid-19. For Trump, the number of tests is both a remarkable triumph \u2013 the biggest in the world \u2013 and also a remarkable admission of failure. You see, if you test more, you find more sickness. It\u2019s like a scientific plot conspiring against him, much like the negative hydroxy study that he\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca Trump-enemy statement\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing testing, you\u2019re finding people,\u201d he explained to a couple of governors and reporters on Wednesday, before bragging again that the US was testing more people than Germany and South Korea. \u201cSo we\u2019re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, \u2018You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.\u2019 Well, if we didn\u2019t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn\u2019t have very many cases.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This was a genius strategy, first perfected by a teenager hiding under his bed covers to avoid homework. But then one of those fake news reporters asked Trump about a per capita comparison with countries like Germany and South Korea.<\/h4>\n\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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Parscale linked to a\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0on the AAPS website about the group\u2019s letter to the Arizona governor\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0its own \u201cfrequently updated table of studies\u201d of the drug, claiming it has \u201cabout [a] 90% chance of helping Covid-19 patients\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
What kind of crazy medical cabal is keeping such a powerful drug from dying patients?<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
The AAPS has a long record of exposing the obvious malevolence of mainstream medicine as part of its mission to keep government out of healthcare. It took a bold stand against the science that HIV causes Aids,\u00a0citing<\/a>\u00a0\u201cofficial reports and the peer-reviewed literature\u201d.<\/h4>\nIt also\u00a0blew open<\/a>\u00a0the science of how Barack Obama was using mass hypnosis to bamboozle voters with his fancy speeches. Apparently the O of his campaign logo resembled a crystal ball, which explains why so many Jews supported Obama. If you think that\u2019s crazy, you should take a look at \u201ca 66-page extensively footnoted but unsigned article\u201d that inspired the AAPS article.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
The AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0fewer than 5,000 members, compared with more than 220,000 members of its arch-enemy, the American Medical Association. But it\u2019s quality, not quantity that counts. Among its past members, the AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0Rand Paul, the ophthalmologist who now serves as one of the few doctors in the US Senate. His kooky libertarian father Ron, a former OB-GYN, was also a member.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nThere\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This is a shame because there are\u00a0only<\/a>\u00a017 doctors among the 535 members of Congress, and 14 of them are Republicans at a time when the nation and the world would appreciate some informed medical opinions in the middle of a once-in-a-generation pandemic.<\/h4>\nInstead, there\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy. Before the pandemic struck,\u00a0recent polling<\/a>\u00a0showed that just 43% of Republicans think that scientists should play an active role in policy debates, compared with 73% of Democrats.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Even fewer Republicans \u2013 34% \u2013 think scientists are any better at making decisions about science policy than you or me.<\/h4>\nThese opinions did not crawl out of the primordial soup on their own. They have evolved over time in a warm bath of fringe conspiracy groups that have spent decades fighting against the teaching of evolution, among other social evils. One of those groups was Phyllis Schlafly\u2019s Eagle Forum, which\u00a0worked<\/a>\u00a0to push evolution out of the classroom, almost as doggedly as\u00a0Mrs America<\/a>\u00a0fought against women\u2019s rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no surprise to find her son Andrew\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0as general counsel to the AAPS. Among other projects, Andrew Schlafly founded a conservative alternative to Wikipedia, to correct its \u201cliberal\u00a0bias<\/a>\u201d on things like evolution.<\/h4>\nSchlafly\u2019s group was not alone; its brother-in-arms was the anti-commie, anti-civil rights John Birch Society, which Phyllis somehow believed was\u00a0not sufficiently<\/a>\u00a0concerned about the Soviet Union.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Today the Birchers believe that among the many globalist plots against America \u2013 led by the UN of course \u2013 is a vast scientific conspiracy. The biggest one, naturally, is the supposed science about the climate crisis. But if you\u2019re at all confused, the Birchers\u2019 website cites \u201cconspiracy\u201d as the first thing that bothers them about science.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cBy definition, a conspiracy is when two or more people work in secret for evil purposes. The John Birch Society believes this definition fits a number of groups working against the independence of the United States,\u201d its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0declares about science. \u201cExtensive study has shown us that history is rarely accidental.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Extensive studies are everywhere if you know where to look. It was no accident of history that Barack Obama recently tried to hypnotize young Americans by warning that the fools who ignored the pandemic were also ignoring the climate crisis.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford any more consequences of climate denial.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
His successor is immune to this kind of mind control known as logic, especially when it comes to testing for Covid-19. For Trump, the number of tests is both a remarkable triumph \u2013 the biggest in the world \u2013 and also a remarkable admission of failure. You see, if you test more, you find more sickness. It\u2019s like a scientific plot conspiring against him, much like the negative hydroxy study that he\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca Trump-enemy statement\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing testing, you\u2019re finding people,\u201d he explained to a couple of governors and reporters on Wednesday, before bragging again that the US was testing more people than Germany and South Korea. \u201cSo we\u2019re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, \u2018You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.\u2019 Well, if we didn\u2019t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn\u2019t have very many cases.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This was a genius strategy, first perfected by a teenager hiding under his bed covers to avoid homework. But then one of those fake news reporters asked Trump about a per capita comparison with countries like Germany and South Korea.<\/h4>\n\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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It also\u00a0blew open<\/a>\u00a0the science of how Barack Obama was using mass hypnosis to bamboozle voters with his fancy speeches. Apparently the O of his campaign logo resembled a crystal ball, which explains why so many Jews supported Obama. If you think that\u2019s crazy, you should take a look at \u201ca 66-page extensively footnoted but unsigned article\u201d that inspired the AAPS article.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
The AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0fewer than 5,000 members, compared with more than 220,000 members of its arch-enemy, the American Medical Association. But it\u2019s quality, not quantity that counts. Among its past members, the AAPS\u00a0counts<\/a>\u00a0Rand Paul, the ophthalmologist who now serves as one of the few doctors in the US Senate. His kooky libertarian father Ron, a former OB-GYN, was also a member.<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nThere\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This is a shame because there are\u00a0only<\/a>\u00a017 doctors among the 535 members of Congress, and 14 of them are Republicans at a time when the nation and the world would appreciate some informed medical opinions in the middle of a once-in-a-generation pandemic.<\/h4>\nInstead, there\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy. Before the pandemic struck,\u00a0recent polling<\/a>\u00a0showed that just 43% of Republicans think that scientists should play an active role in policy debates, compared with 73% of Democrats.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Even fewer Republicans \u2013 34% \u2013 think scientists are any better at making decisions about science policy than you or me.<\/h4>\nThese opinions did not crawl out of the primordial soup on their own. They have evolved over time in a warm bath of fringe conspiracy groups that have spent decades fighting against the teaching of evolution, among other social evils. One of those groups was Phyllis Schlafly\u2019s Eagle Forum, which\u00a0worked<\/a>\u00a0to push evolution out of the classroom, almost as doggedly as\u00a0Mrs America<\/a>\u00a0fought against women\u2019s rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no surprise to find her son Andrew\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0as general counsel to the AAPS. Among other projects, Andrew Schlafly founded a conservative alternative to Wikipedia, to correct its \u201cliberal\u00a0bias<\/a>\u201d on things like evolution.<\/h4>\nSchlafly\u2019s group was not alone; its brother-in-arms was the anti-commie, anti-civil rights John Birch Society, which Phyllis somehow believed was\u00a0not sufficiently<\/a>\u00a0concerned about the Soviet Union.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Today the Birchers believe that among the many globalist plots against America \u2013 led by the UN of course \u2013 is a vast scientific conspiracy. The biggest one, naturally, is the supposed science about the climate crisis. But if you\u2019re at all confused, the Birchers\u2019 website cites \u201cconspiracy\u201d as the first thing that bothers them about science.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cBy definition, a conspiracy is when two or more people work in secret for evil purposes. The John Birch Society believes this definition fits a number of groups working against the independence of the United States,\u201d its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0declares about science. \u201cExtensive study has shown us that history is rarely accidental.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Extensive studies are everywhere if you know where to look. It was no accident of history that Barack Obama recently tried to hypnotize young Americans by warning that the fools who ignored the pandemic were also ignoring the climate crisis.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford any more consequences of climate denial.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
His successor is immune to this kind of mind control known as logic, especially when it comes to testing for Covid-19. For Trump, the number of tests is both a remarkable triumph \u2013 the biggest in the world \u2013 and also a remarkable admission of failure. You see, if you test more, you find more sickness. It\u2019s like a scientific plot conspiring against him, much like the negative hydroxy study that he\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca Trump-enemy statement\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing testing, you\u2019re finding people,\u201d he explained to a couple of governors and reporters on Wednesday, before bragging again that the US was testing more people than Germany and South Korea. \u201cSo we\u2019re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, \u2018You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.\u2019 Well, if we didn\u2019t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn\u2019t have very many cases.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This was a genius strategy, first perfected by a teenager hiding under his bed covers to avoid homework. But then one of those fake news reporters asked Trump about a per capita comparison with countries like Germany and South Korea.<\/h4>\n\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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<\/h4>\nThere\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This is a shame because there are\u00a0only<\/a>\u00a017 doctors among the 535 members of Congress, and 14 of them are Republicans at a time when the nation and the world would appreciate some informed medical opinions in the middle of a once-in-a-generation pandemic.<\/h4>\nInstead, there\u2019s ample evidence that most Republicans think scientists should butt out of public policy. Before the pandemic struck,\u00a0recent polling<\/a>\u00a0showed that just 43% of Republicans think that scientists should play an active role in policy debates, compared with 73% of Democrats.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Even fewer Republicans \u2013 34% \u2013 think scientists are any better at making decisions about science policy than you or me.<\/h4>\nThese opinions did not crawl out of the primordial soup on their own. They have evolved over time in a warm bath of fringe conspiracy groups that have spent decades fighting against the teaching of evolution, among other social evils. One of those groups was Phyllis Schlafly\u2019s Eagle Forum, which\u00a0worked<\/a>\u00a0to push evolution out of the classroom, almost as doggedly as\u00a0Mrs America<\/a>\u00a0fought against women\u2019s rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no surprise to find her son Andrew\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0as general counsel to the AAPS. Among other projects, Andrew Schlafly founded a conservative alternative to Wikipedia, to correct its \u201cliberal\u00a0bias<\/a>\u201d on things like evolution.<\/h4>\nSchlafly\u2019s group was not alone; its brother-in-arms was the anti-commie, anti-civil rights John Birch Society, which Phyllis somehow believed was\u00a0not sufficiently<\/a>\u00a0concerned about the Soviet Union.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Today the Birchers believe that among the many globalist plots against America \u2013 led by the UN of course \u2013 is a vast scientific conspiracy. The biggest one, naturally, is the supposed science about the climate crisis. But if you\u2019re at all confused, the Birchers\u2019 website cites \u201cconspiracy\u201d as the first thing that bothers them about science.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cBy definition, a conspiracy is when two or more people work in secret for evil purposes. The John Birch Society believes this definition fits a number of groups working against the independence of the United States,\u201d its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0declares about science. \u201cExtensive study has shown us that history is rarely accidental.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Extensive studies are everywhere if you know where to look. It was no accident of history that Barack Obama recently tried to hypnotize young Americans by warning that the fools who ignored the pandemic were also ignoring the climate crisis.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford any more consequences of climate denial.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
His successor is immune to this kind of mind control known as logic, especially when it comes to testing for Covid-19. For Trump, the number of tests is both a remarkable triumph \u2013 the biggest in the world \u2013 and also a remarkable admission of failure. You see, if you test more, you find more sickness. It\u2019s like a scientific plot conspiring against him, much like the negative hydroxy study that he\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca Trump-enemy statement\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing testing, you\u2019re finding people,\u201d he explained to a couple of governors and reporters on Wednesday, before bragging again that the US was testing more people than Germany and South Korea. \u201cSo we\u2019re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, \u2018You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.\u2019 Well, if we didn\u2019t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn\u2019t have very many cases.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This was a genius strategy, first perfected by a teenager hiding under his bed covers to avoid homework. But then one of those fake news reporters asked Trump about a per capita comparison with countries like Germany and South Korea.<\/h4>\n\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\n
Even fewer Republicans \u2013 34% \u2013 think scientists are any better at making decisions about science policy than you or me.<\/h4>\nThese opinions did not crawl out of the primordial soup on their own. They have evolved over time in a warm bath of fringe conspiracy groups that have spent decades fighting against the teaching of evolution, among other social evils. One of those groups was Phyllis Schlafly\u2019s Eagle Forum, which\u00a0worked<\/a>\u00a0to push evolution out of the classroom, almost as doggedly as\u00a0Mrs America<\/a>\u00a0fought against women\u2019s rights and the Equal Rights Amendment.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no surprise to find her son Andrew\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0as general counsel to the AAPS. Among other projects, Andrew Schlafly founded a conservative alternative to Wikipedia, to correct its \u201cliberal\u00a0bias<\/a>\u201d on things like evolution.<\/h4>\nSchlafly\u2019s group was not alone; its brother-in-arms was the anti-commie, anti-civil rights John Birch Society, which Phyllis somehow believed was\u00a0not sufficiently<\/a>\u00a0concerned about the Soviet Union.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Today the Birchers believe that among the many globalist plots against America \u2013 led by the UN of course \u2013 is a vast scientific conspiracy. The biggest one, naturally, is the supposed science about the climate crisis. But if you\u2019re at all confused, the Birchers\u2019 website cites \u201cconspiracy\u201d as the first thing that bothers them about science.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cBy definition, a conspiracy is when two or more people work in secret for evil purposes. The John Birch Society believes this definition fits a number of groups working against the independence of the United States,\u201d its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0declares about science. \u201cExtensive study has shown us that history is rarely accidental.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Extensive studies are everywhere if you know where to look. It was no accident of history that Barack Obama recently tried to hypnotize young Americans by warning that the fools who ignored the pandemic were also ignoring the climate crisis.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford any more consequences of climate denial.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
His successor is immune to this kind of mind control known as logic, especially when it comes to testing for Covid-19. For Trump, the number of tests is both a remarkable triumph \u2013 the biggest in the world \u2013 and also a remarkable admission of failure. You see, if you test more, you find more sickness. It\u2019s like a scientific plot conspiring against him, much like the negative hydroxy study that he\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca Trump-enemy statement\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing testing, you\u2019re finding people,\u201d he explained to a couple of governors and reporters on Wednesday, before bragging again that the US was testing more people than Germany and South Korea. \u201cSo we\u2019re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, \u2018You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.\u2019 Well, if we didn\u2019t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn\u2019t have very many cases.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This was a genius strategy, first perfected by a teenager hiding under his bed covers to avoid homework. But then one of those fake news reporters asked Trump about a per capita comparison with countries like Germany and South Korea.<\/h4>\n\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no surprise to find her son Andrew\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0as general counsel to the AAPS. Among other projects, Andrew Schlafly founded a conservative alternative to Wikipedia, to correct its \u201cliberal\u00a0bias<\/a>\u201d on things like evolution.<\/h4>\nSchlafly\u2019s group was not alone; its brother-in-arms was the anti-commie, anti-civil rights John Birch Society, which Phyllis somehow believed was\u00a0not sufficiently<\/a>\u00a0concerned about the Soviet Union.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Today the Birchers believe that among the many globalist plots against America \u2013 led by the UN of course \u2013 is a vast scientific conspiracy. The biggest one, naturally, is the supposed science about the climate crisis. But if you\u2019re at all confused, the Birchers\u2019 website cites \u201cconspiracy\u201d as the first thing that bothers them about science.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cBy definition, a conspiracy is when two or more people work in secret for evil purposes. The John Birch Society believes this definition fits a number of groups working against the independence of the United States,\u201d its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0declares about science. \u201cExtensive study has shown us that history is rarely accidental.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Extensive studies are everywhere if you know where to look. It was no accident of history that Barack Obama recently tried to hypnotize young Americans by warning that the fools who ignored the pandemic were also ignoring the climate crisis.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford any more consequences of climate denial.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
His successor is immune to this kind of mind control known as logic, especially when it comes to testing for Covid-19. For Trump, the number of tests is both a remarkable triumph \u2013 the biggest in the world \u2013 and also a remarkable admission of failure. You see, if you test more, you find more sickness. It\u2019s like a scientific plot conspiring against him, much like the negative hydroxy study that he\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca Trump-enemy statement\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing testing, you\u2019re finding people,\u201d he explained to a couple of governors and reporters on Wednesday, before bragging again that the US was testing more people than Germany and South Korea. \u201cSo we\u2019re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, \u2018You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.\u2019 Well, if we didn\u2019t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn\u2019t have very many cases.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This was a genius strategy, first perfected by a teenager hiding under his bed covers to avoid homework. But then one of those fake news reporters asked Trump about a per capita comparison with countries like Germany and South Korea.<\/h4>\n\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\n
Today the Birchers believe that among the many globalist plots against America \u2013 led by the UN of course \u2013 is a vast scientific conspiracy. The biggest one, naturally, is the supposed science about the climate crisis. But if you\u2019re at all confused, the Birchers\u2019 website cites \u201cconspiracy\u201d as the first thing that bothers them about science.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cBy definition, a conspiracy is when two or more people work in secret for evil purposes. The John Birch Society believes this definition fits a number of groups working against the independence of the United States,\u201d its\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0declares about science. \u201cExtensive study has shown us that history is rarely accidental.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
Extensive studies are everywhere if you know where to look. It was no accident of history that Barack Obama recently tried to hypnotize young Americans by warning that the fools who ignored the pandemic were also ignoring the climate crisis.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic,\u201d he\u00a0tweeted<\/a>. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford any more consequences of climate denial.\u201d<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
His successor is immune to this kind of mind control known as logic, especially when it comes to testing for Covid-19. For Trump, the number of tests is both a remarkable triumph \u2013 the biggest in the world \u2013 and also a remarkable admission of failure. You see, if you test more, you find more sickness. It\u2019s like a scientific plot conspiring against him, much like the negative hydroxy study that he\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca Trump-enemy statement\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing testing, you\u2019re finding people,\u201d he explained to a couple of governors and reporters on Wednesday, before bragging again that the US was testing more people than Germany and South Korea. \u201cSo we\u2019re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, \u2018You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.\u2019 Well, if we didn\u2019t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn\u2019t have very many cases.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This was a genius strategy, first perfected by a teenager hiding under his bed covers to avoid homework. But then one of those fake news reporters asked Trump about a per capita comparison with countries like Germany and South Korea.<\/h4>\n\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\n
His successor is immune to this kind of mind control known as logic, especially when it comes to testing for Covid-19. For Trump, the number of tests is both a remarkable triumph \u2013 the biggest in the world \u2013 and also a remarkable admission of failure. You see, if you test more, you find more sickness. It\u2019s like a scientific plot conspiring against him, much like the negative hydroxy study that he\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0\u201ca Trump-enemy statement\u201d.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing testing, you\u2019re finding people,\u201d he explained to a couple of governors and reporters on Wednesday, before bragging again that the US was testing more people than Germany and South Korea. \u201cSo we\u2019re way ahead of everybody. But when you do that, you have more cases. So a lot of times, the fake news media will say, \u2018You know, there are a lot of cases in the United States.\u2019 Well, if we didn\u2019t do testing at a level that nobody has ever dreamt possible, you wouldn\u2019t have very many cases.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
This was a genius strategy, first perfected by a teenager hiding under his bed covers to avoid homework. But then one of those fake news reporters asked Trump about a per capita comparison with countries like Germany and South Korea.<\/h4>\n\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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\u201cYou know, when you say \u2018per capita\u2019 there\u2019s many per capitas,\u201d said Trump. \u201cIt\u2019s, like, per capita relative to what? But you can look at just about any category, and we\u2019re really at the top, meaning positive on a per-capita basis too.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/h4>\nAt this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials<\/h4>\nPer capita would be relative to the capita in any normal universe. But \u201cscientists\u201d may have also\u00a0discovered<\/a>\u00a0signs of a parallel universe where everything is backward, including time itself. That\u2019s the universe Trump came from, through a wormhole that leads directly to Mar-a-Lago.<\/h4>\n <\/p>\n
It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
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Then again, Adams thought that democracy was doomed because of the power of the plebeian mob. \u201cRemember Democracy never lasts long,\u201d he\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.\u201d<\/h4>\nIf not by quack medicine, then by the conspiracy theories of a president who believes in Trump-enemy science.<\/h4>\n
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It\u2019s far bigger than one president, though. At this point of his presidency, there\u2019s a whole team of anti-science vectors called Trump officials. Among them is the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, who promised to never lie to the media, but who managed to slam them all the same for what she called \u201capoplectic coverage of hydroxycholoroquine\u201d on Tuesday.<\/h4>\n
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\u201cAnd interestingly, I found this out just before coming here,\u201d she explained, \u201chydroxychloroquine, of course, is an FDA-approved medication with a long-proven track record for safety.\u201d<\/h4>\n
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Well Kayleigh, you make a great point. The FDA has approved lots of medications like chemotherapy drugs that will actually kill you if you self-prescribe. So maybe the scientists are wrong about everything.<\/h4>\n
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America\u2019s founding fathers knew we\u2019d end up in this place. \u201cFacts are stubborn things,\u201d John Adams declared in his successful defense of the hated British soldiers responsible for the Boston massacre. \u201cWhatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence,\u201d he said 250 years ago.<\/h4>\n
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