Why MAGA hates science so much

19.07.2025    Salon    6 views
Why MAGA hates science so much

Against all the evidence of horrific devastating weather around us atmosphere change is still a hoax A measles outbreak sparked by anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists now extends beyond Texas to states Republicans are doing all they can to shut down funding for health research Why does MAGA hate science Shall we count the procedures Because scientific advances don t discriminate between the worthy and those considered unworthy and because specific in the billionaire class think they deserve to live much longer than you do Related Haunted by Epstein Trump spirals further out of control As they prep their fancy-shmancy bunkers or delude themselves that they can one day head off to Mars to escape their wanton destruction of the Earth the billionaire bros know they can avail themselves and their children of lifesaving vaccinations and other healthcare care services that they are putting out of reach for various of us Working people who choose to wear MAGA red caps hate science for their own reasons It tells them things about affection and environmental destruction and women s reproductive physical condition that they cannot bear to face But it s not just the small and small-minded and small-hearted wealthy libertarian or right-wing elite Working people who choose to wear MAGA red caps hate science for their own reasons It tells them things about disorder and environmental destruction and say women s reproductive soundness that they cannot bear to face Scientific findings often do not jibe with their religious beliefs If you believe the Earth is years old and were never taught how to distinguish between faith and knowledge you re naturally going to have a testy relationship with science By its nature of openness to new ideas scientific inquiry exemplifies the secular worldview of liberals Science levels the playing field It s woke Scientists discriminate about the significance of evidence but they do not discriminate about the significance of different human beings That is what the MAGA faithful think their religion is for because Republicans have spent a long time perverting Christianity too to justify their greed and bigotry We need your help to stay independent Subscribe in the current era to patronage Salon s progressive journalism From reading the writers of the Enlightenment Thomas Jefferson knew science was evening out the social playing field In an article for Smithsonian magazine historian Stephen E Ambrose notes that amid all the contradictions of his personal life Jefferson never relinquished his idealism about all men being created equal In his last message to America on June ten days before he died on July the same day that John Adams died Jefferson declined an invitation to be in Washington for the th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence He wrote All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs nor a favored sparse booted and spurred ready to ride them There s the danger to those who consider themselves superior by race color creed or position on the Forbes annual list of billionaires to the mass of men and women Scientific advancements make us ever more aware that we are all the same and should enjoy the same basic rights to mentoring physical condition care civil liberties like voting freedom of and freedom from religion and the freedom to read or otherwise consume whatever opinions or cultural works we choose the very things that the current occupant of the White House and his MAGA followers are working to take away from us Beyond the historical friction between science and religious beliefs for which earlier scientists could be imprisoned or burned at the stake the main reason MAGA hates science is human-caused global state change Al Gore famously called global warming an inconvenient truth but Donald Trump persists in calling it a hoax while defunding atmosphere research green instrument NOAA and FEMA The COVID pandemic gave MAGA followers a large number of more incoherent reasons to distrust science while watching their favorite president politicize every aspect of the response Apparently millions would rather suffer mightily or even die as various willfully unvaccinated people did than admit they were wrong It s a sad aspect of human nature to feel we have such sunk costs in our often-wrongheaded opinions that we are willing to perish for them I was a biology major in college for a scarce years with vague plans of healthcare school vaguely until I switched to journalism I would not pretend to be a scientist based on that curtailed training but I did spend years in healthcare publishing As a production editor and later as a submission systems manager I came to understand the important work of researchers and the selfless work of the multiple peer reviewers who help editors determine which studies merit publication For numerous journals I worked with the acceptance rates were astonishingly small MAGA conspiracy heads might call that publication process elitist and claim that people with worthwhile ideas are being kept out of the conversation Majority of people in the sciences however understand the process as separating the wheat from the chaff by culling out the several papers that for one reason or another perhaps poor design or insignificant findings fail to advance scientific knowledge You don t need any grasp of science to understand that what Trump and his party of grifters and religious zealots are doing to universities by withholding research funding will be economically devastating But you don t need any understanding of science to understand that what Trump and his party of grifters and religious zealots are doing to universities by withholding research funding will be economically devastating to this country slowing scientific progress and seriously disrupting the lives and careers of multiple researchers technicians lab assistants and students The long-term negative effects of Trump s attack on science which are also part of the full-spectrum MAGA assault on coaching and the nonpartisan civil provision will likely be even worse Students will be increasingly reluctant to pursue careers in science Only a months ago STEM courses in high school and college were viewed as critical to the future of American ingenuity and enterprise a big part of what veritably made America great It s impossible to gauge just how much damage will be done as we ban vaccines deny context science and make measles great again Several MAGA supporters don t want to share their America with brown people who may or may not be citizens too numerous of them welcome the persecution and deportation of longtime U S residents who put in long hours at child care centers hotels and restaurants construction and landscaping companies hospitals and nursing homes and in agricultural fields doing the thankless and often grueling work of picking and delivering the crops that feed the nation Britain s decision to leave the European Union one of the worst self-inflicted wounds of current political history has cost the U K an estimated drop in GDP so far The probable conclusion of MAGA s lust to spend billions on hiring more masked secret police-style ICE agents to deport hard-working tax-paying immigrants even if we look beyond the human suffering will be a Brexit-level recession on steroids Want more sharp takes on politics Sign up for our free newsletter Standing Room Only by Amanda Marcotte now a weekly show on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts Ultimately what our felonious ever-grifting president wants to do is to destroy all expertise in this country That s what autocrats do The manchild MAGA leader can t stand for any so-called experts to question him when he makes idiotic suggestions about residents strength proposes setting off nuclear bombs inside a hurricane or tries to change the longstanding name of a geographical feature to gratify his fragile ego He wants to claim that his supposedly big and beautiful bill is the preponderance popular bill in history and that he s the greatest president ever and doesn t want to hear egghead historians tell him otherwise Trump hates to be questioned so he hates journalists scientists and anyone else with the kind of development that encourages critical thinking That s why he has surrounded himself with an entire Cabinet of white nationalist frat boys shameless sycophants and fellow grifters not to mention a supermajority of right-wing Supreme Court justices who appear ready to hand him absolute power American Robin a poem by Barbara Crooker that was in the last few days featured in George Bilgere s Poetry Town newsletter is about our inability to respond appropriately to the devastation of human-made surroundings change But it applies equally well to all the anti-science misogynist racist Dark Enlightenment nonsense coming from the right that seeks to rob you your children and your grandchildren of a financially and environmentally secure future It begins this way Here s that bird again launching from the rhododendron banging his forehead on my living room window Thump Thump Does he see his own reflection in the glass or does he see a rival a threat to his nest I hang a black raptor silhouette in the middle square but that does not deter him Knock yourself out I keep thinking Next I try cardboard then a sheet of newspaper smeared with its terrible news He comes back Do I admire him for his persistence or shrug at his stupidity Thunk Thunk Read the whole poem I ll wait One could read Crooker s dismay at the American robin s thumps and thunks against her windowpane as a rhyme for the name of a certain infamous conman turned populist demagogue But that is perhaps unfair to the poet and the bird Read more about Trump s demolition project How Trump s ICE may draw the wrong recruits Aid groups prepare for a big beautiful spike in poverty RFK Jr could cause vaccine makers to flee U S realm The post Why MAGA hates science so much appeared first on Salon com

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