Posted on 04/25/2020 2:58:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
What President Donald Trump says and does often flies in the face of mainstream science. Coronavirus and the idea of injecting disinfectants is only the latest episode.
When a rare solar eclipse happened in 2017, astronomers and eye doctors repeatedly warned people not to stare directly at the sun without protection. Photos show Trump did anyway. He later donned protective glasses.
For decades, scientists have called climate change a pressing issue, pointing to data, physics and chemistry. Trump regularly called it a hoax until recently. He also claims that noise from wind turbines - which he refers to as windmills - causes cancer, which is not accurate. He’s also claimed that exercise will deplete the finite amount of energy a body has, while doctors tell people that exercise is critical to good health.
Asked what kind of grade he’d give Trump on science, M. Granger Morgan, a Carnegie Mellon University engineering and policy professor who has advised Democratic and Republican administrations, answered with a quick “F.”
“When he starts to air things like that (injection), it’s definitely a danger to the public because some people might actually do that,” said Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu, who was energy secretary in the Obama administration. “This isn’t science. This is something else.”
Trump seems to put science, medicine and controlled studies on equal footing with rumor and anecdotes, said Sudip Parikh, a biochemist who is chief executive officer of AAAS.
Mixing those two up when talking to the public is “terrible for communication,” Parikh said. It muddles and confuses the public, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
What a pack of lies! They have absolutely no shame!!
Remind me again which party thinks that gender is whatever you choose and believes it can control the weather ?
At the current pace of things....we should only elect PhD scientists to the Presidency in the future.
More AP garbage. “Riff”? Hardly. It’s only a “riff” to the lamestream idiotic media. But yeah, progressive libtard Dems continue to think that injecting hormones into children and removing their genitals is a treatment for psychosis......
All the while, the lamestream, to include the garbage AP, continues to fully ignore Biden’s word salad incidents, his Tara Reade problem given a clip has just appeared, etc. Yeah, okie dokie.
Agreed. And one should also think of the NYT’s admiration of Stalin (during and after his regime) who was very definitely anti science (witness his agriculture commissar who did not believe in genetics).
The left wants aAmeroca ruled by scinece, ie. unelected deep state scientific Plutocrats.
President Trump has been clear and unequivocal.
The elected officials of America will run the country for the American People, not the Science “Plutocrats.”
Want to inject a little Lysol there? Drink a little Chlorox? ( grin)
Ask not for whom the prez Trolls.
He Trolls for thee!
SETH BORENSTEIN is a such a lazy-arse reporter he’s probably wore grooves in the plastic carpet shield under his office chair.
UV-C kills mold and virus and more and is what trump was talking about. Too bad he can't explain himself.
Pay very close attention to what our President actually
says, and to what actually turns out to be true, later.
His IQ is pushing 160.
He knows more than they do.
He rarely turns out to be wrong.
When he DOES say something wrong, it’s almost always
to make them look at something they wish they hadn’t.
A True Master, having fun doing serious work.
I’m sooooooo tired of this BS.
I notice Seth there just couldn’t resist the identity politics urge to seek out a Chinese-sounding testimonial so he found Steven Chu of all people to feature in his article.
Apparently Seth also thinks that using classic propaganda techniques like ‘appeal to authority’ rather than fact-checking is a scientific approach to journalism. Doesn’t he know that the Nobel Prize has been a joke since before the time that the Nobel committee gave one to a guy from Chicago for doing nothing at all.
Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”?
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Knott and co-workers then carried out a series of experiments using UV irradiation of blood extracted from dogs that had been intravenously infected with Staphylococcus aureus bacteria and hemolytic Streptococcus species, and then the treated blood was reinfused into the dogs. They found that it was unnecessary to deliver a sufficient exposure of UV light to the blood to directory kill all the bacteria in the circulation. It was also found unnecessary to expose the total blood volume in the dogs. The optimum amount of blood to be irradiated was determined to be only 5–7% of the estimated blood volume or approximately 3.5 mL per kg of body weight. Exceeding these limits led to loss of the benefits of the therapy.
All the dogs that were treated with the optimized dose of UV to the blood, recovered from an overwhelming infection (while many dogs in the control group died). None of the dogs that were treated and survived, showed any long-term ill effects after 4 months of observation.
The first treatment on a human took place in 1928 when a patient was determined to be in a moribund state after a septic abortion complicated by hemolytic streptococcus septicemia. UBI therapy was commenced as a last resort, and the patient responded well to the treatment and made a full recovery. She proceeded to give birth to two children.
They have no shame and they don’t care! I just hope the President has a strategy that will kick their you know what! It just goes to show how much they hate this man!
Trump can talk about promising treatments and the possibility of therapies because he does not see the American people as stupid enough to inject Lysol into their veins.
The AP thinks Americans are stupid and need to be protected from themselves.
What happened to the video of the John Roberts’ discovery of the use of UVA that gives credence to what President Trump mentioned regarding the use of UVA internally.
I saw it...it was fascinating.
Suddenly, You Tube took it down.
First time I have ever seen anything like that. The takedown I mean.
ASS-ociated depressed
Scientists are only good when they march to the agenda and know who pays them
Borenstein is a long standing chicom stooge
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