Trump escalates his war on science and on scientists
Ever since taking office in January 2017, Trump has been making war against truth, including scientific truth and scientists themselves. He has been following Orwell’s 1984 novel in eliminating truthful information he does not want. In the book it was destroyed in ways that Orwell could imagine, and now Trump is eliminating truth (including scientific truth) by deleting it from websites and prohibiting Executive Branch professionals from using certain words that Trump does not like. Climate denialism and other phony-baloney nonsense have become orthodox. Honest professional scientists are censored and demoted and hushed up in other ways. This article from […]