Larssen wrote:
Well the right wing has spent the better part of the last 2 decades attacking and undermining the scientific community, portraying its recommendations and conclusions as mere opinions.
If its 20 years can this be traced to all the 'scientists' the Neo-cons rolled out to tell us Iraq DEFINITELY had WMDs?
Seems they're now being presented as evil-doers who lied to our pure as driven snow leadership.
Trump will pull a similar stunt 'the scientists didn't warn us enough, and they got it wrong'.
I'm wholly despondent, easy for people to lose trust, it takes 10 times the effort to regain it.
What will happen next is an even more ridiculous populist will make more absurd accusations and promises and so we will spiral into idiocracy.
How can epidemiologists be the only people entitled to an opinion
Yes, my baseless opinion is as valid as your scientifically accepted fact, and hence we have people like Trump, Jay etc.