re: #14 mr.fusion

Yeah. The anti-intellectual, anti-science attitude the GOP has been preaching has reached a really, really dangerous zenith. We’re at a stage where the only thing that can possibly help the US maintain its economic dominance is far-reaching advances in science, and we have a political party that’s actively hostile to scientists, and they’ve managed to convince a large percentage of the population to also mistrust, distrust, and actively attack scientists.

It’s now in a dangerous feedback loop; now that the GOP and the right-wing media has done such a good job of convincing the public that scientist are all involved in a massive conspiracy, they’re locked into it. They can’t back down from their lie, they can’t possibly admit that they’ve been actively deceiving the US public on a matter of such grave importance.