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.

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.

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.

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