Can Science Show That Trump Has ‘Damaged’ the US? Scientific American Thinks So

Recently, Scientific American endorsed Joe Biden for president. They claimed that Trump is a science denier, as shown by his response to the COVID crisis. As such, they deemed Trump unfit to care for U.S. citizens: “The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its people — because he rejects evidence and science.”

Nonsense. “Science” doesn’t show anything. Scientists do. And scientists are like the rest of us — biased and contentious. Exhibit A: Scientific American.

We often think of scientists as dispassionate observers — a unique type of person who observes, thinks, and makes claims with a method and technique that others do not. Scientists often demonstrate interesting and useful things, but they are not super-human observers. As Logan Paul Gage says in his new online course How Science Became a Religion, “Scientific theories do not emerge automatically from pristine data … not everyone draws the same conclusions from the same data set.” Their “scientific methodology” is just a way of testing an idea that they have. In other words, at their best, they make and test arguments. And in Scientific American, the unnamed editors make a bad and untested one.

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Making Bad Arguments

The editors argue that, in contrast to Trump, testing and tracking people is how “Europe and Asia have gained control over their outbreaks, saved lives, and successfully reopened businesses and schools.” But this is not true. The New York Times even recently made note of this. England, for example, spent $20 million on new testing and it didn’t work. They are back in quarantine, disallowed to be in groups larger than six people. Meanwhile, Trump has spent billions of dollars on testing.

Testing and contact tracing can work if you have a handful of cases and can isolate the carriers and his/her contacts very quickly. Once you have more than a thousand cases, that is just a fool’s errand and it is impossible to contain it. If the disease spreads asymptomatically, then it really is an ultra fool’s errand.

Speaking of which, what happened to the notion that COVID was unique in it’s asymptomatic contagion? Was that ever confirmed or refuted? It sure faded away as an issue.

The toilet paper rag 'Scientific American' is not scientific nor is it American.

Scientific American has no issues with the "Climate Change" hoaxers not releasing the raw data feeding their "Hockey Stick" graph.

Scientific American has yet to publish how you're XX or XY and that men are men and women are women.

Scientifc American also hasn't explained how COVID-19 is such a strange virus that rioters and the politicians who support them are immune to its effects and don't need to wear protective masks or maintain distance from each other.

I stopped reading that rag in the mid ‘60s. When I went to graduate school in the late cretacious my parents thought that I should have some sort of exposure to current events so they offered to buy me a subscription to Time. I told them to spend their money on a NRA membership and BTW I wanted the American Rifleman not the hunter. They bought me subscriptions to both Time and US News and World report.

“scientific” American is anything but...and has been a political organ for decades. These worthless integrity-free “scientists” and their sick cohorts politicized science and use that to push their pathetic leftist agendas. A once respected magazine has become a yellow rag. The disingenuous, dishonest publisher should be brought before the World Court in the Hague t face charges because they murder trees to publish their pathetic bilge.

The Rats have been buying the scientists off for years. Need a report showing global warming???? Bam! Need a report showing ocean levels rising?? Whamo!! How about research showing hydrocloroquine is ineffective with COVID???? The paper will be published tomorrow!!!!!

The Rats and their bought scientists are a fake as a $13 bill.

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