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Can Science Show That Trump Has ‘Damaged’ the US? Scientific American Thinks So
The Stream ^ | October 1, 2020 | Jacob Fareed Imam

Posted on 10/01/2020 8:55:53 AM PDT by Heartlander

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.

VIDEO: Facts Alone

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.


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TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; liberalhate; sciencebigots
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To: Heartlander

SA used to be readable. No longer, alas. If we want to be propagandized by communist/Nazi-leftist garbage, we can still get it done to us for free On the boobtoob and radio “network news”


21 posted on 10/01/2020 9:25:04 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good thing they keep the politics out of it. Guess scientific ‘Murica ain’t settled.


22 posted on 10/01/2020 9:25:29 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: EEGator

“I love how Trump is both an idiot, and a global evil genius at the same time.
If only there was a word for holding two contradicting ideas at the same time...”
___________________________________________

There is, it’s known as Schizophrenia.


23 posted on 10/01/2020 9:26:50 AM PDT by Brown Bag Special (Trust but VERIFY)
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To: RatRipper
> The Rats and their bought scientists are a fake as a $13 bill. <

Funny you should mention that. I got one of those back in change just the other day. It was nice to see that the Treasury finally honored a woman.


24 posted on 10/01/2020 9:27:33 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Heartlander
science before "Scientific" American
was systematized knowledge.

so for the knowledge: here is the Truth:
it was not Pres. Trump that made this virus,
but rather the usual suspects
25 posted on 10/01/2020 9:29:21 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: Heartlander

The left promotes idiotic crap like this 24/7, 365 days of the year. And each year, the left gets traction and destroys our country a little at a time. It’s been so successful, that little did we realize until now, we are on the eve of being boiled alive.

The church, schools, business, every element of government, the tv, internet, sports, media, entertainment, it’s all progressive left.

The only thing left to do, is to round up the opposition.


26 posted on 10/01/2020 9:30:28 AM PDT by Professional
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To: Heartlander

Classic pseudoscience.


27 posted on 10/01/2020 9:31:45 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: Heartlander

Classic pseudoscience.


28 posted on 10/01/2020 9:31:46 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: Heartlander

The term “science” is in the same arena as MSM “news”, in that both are be instantly believed to be bullshit.

I wonder what the common people of Nazi Germany or Communist Russia did to filter out Nazi or Communist lies? I suspect they believed none of it.


29 posted on 10/01/2020 9:32:36 AM PDT by redfreedom
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To: Heartlander

30 posted on 10/01/2020 9:34:56 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Bunch of gonefs making a living off global warming and other such rot.


31 posted on 10/01/2020 10:05:01 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneow)
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To: Brilliant

Science has become irreparably political.”

Yes, it has. I remember being on the Reed College campus in utter shock the day Sputnik went up. Everyone was appalled. We all wanted the government to do something just as they did in the fairly recent WWII in getting our science and technology up and running.

We had no idea of the regimentation to come. Government, that is politics writ very large, as all government projects grow into. Since my college days I have not only seen, but attempted to analyze both our own government and compare it to the Nazi support of thier own science establishment before and during WWII. Ours is much worse because we are not only more wealthy, and wealth attracts the political amongst us.

Sputnik was the incentive to our scientific ruin and corruption.

Irt looks like this will continue. However, President Trump has broken so many molds and economic holds that lead to our corruption, that I hope science is also somehow cleansed. Probably not, but I do have this hope.


32 posted on 10/01/2020 10:45:07 AM PDT by sciencewriter86
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To: Heartlander

Just goes to show how corrupt science has become. Set the goal first then manufacture the data to get the desired results.

When the money gets big
People get hurt


33 posted on 10/01/2020 10:49:35 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Leaning Right

LOL. That pretty little singer has hopelessly scrambled values and brains . . . she belongs on a $13 bill!!!


34 posted on 10/01/2020 10:51:55 AM PDT by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: Menehune56

White Lives Matter. Prayer is Real. Andrism is for everyone. Humans are not illegal, but crossing the border without permission is. Love isn’t yours to mandate. Kindness should be returned in kind and not used as a political bludgeon.


35 posted on 10/01/2020 10:54:25 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

And what about the plain old flu’s numbers?


36 posted on 10/01/2020 10:56:20 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Heartlander

Based on science, the US was going to have 2 million deaths. So far only 200k, looks to me like Trump saved 90% of the people that were going to die.


37 posted on 10/01/2020 11:41:11 AM PDT by dgbrown
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