Eric TopolSep 22, 2023
"The U.S. must also recognize how anti-science rhetoric has emerged as a new lethal force and find mechanisms to halt its advance."
"The unvaccinated were targeted by a well-financed and newly politicized anti-vaccine movement."
https://latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-09-22/antiscience-climate-change-covid-vaccines-antivax
Opinion: From COVID to climate, scientists need defending

Americans need science to sustain democracy and progress. The alternative is to follow the path of the Soviet Union: sidelining experts and sacrificing lives.

Los Angeles Times
Show threadmORASep 22, 2023
@erictopol @beep
«There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been.
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”
(Isaac ASIMOV)»
Show threadkelleynnn
@mora @erictopol @beep I'd bet $$ the same Objectivists etc I saw frothing about "Lysenkosim" on Facebook turned right around and became anti vax nuts
Sep 22, 2023 at 11:22pmWeb