This information will be lost on most Republicans, given their general distrust of science.
Or perhaps they simply didn't want to take drugs pushed by people who actively hate them and demean them at every opportunity.
Or possibly they're aware of the tendency of governments the world over to use emergencies to seize power, as has undeniably been done here.
Or maybe they believe in their own version of "my body, my choice".
Possibly also they don't want to take scientific advice on people who suddenly insist that boys can be girls, and that anyone who disagrees should be banished from society.
It's foolish to think one party "owns" science, and natural that people would bristle when dictated to by perhaps the smarmiest smuggies that have ever existed on the planet.
Or perhaps they didn’t want to take drugs pushed by people they actively hate and demean at every opportunity.
> perhaps the smarmiest smuggies that have ever existed on the planet
Whelp, that didn't take long.
Also, as you're no doubt aware, calling someone "smug" and calling someone a Russian-backed Nazi science-denier (and then trying to get them fired and/or prosecuted) are very, very different.
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Summoning mass false reporting brigades to destroy the livelihoods of innocent people is not.
I can't help that it's mostly one side doing it. Perhaps if it were less blatantly obvious, people would stop noticing it.
If you "trust" science, you're just being religious. The people who don't just immediately take the words of the CDC or WHO at face value are more scientific than the people who do.
Science is full of trust. Science is rarely replicated from first principles. There just isn't time. The further away one gets from one's own field, the more one relies on the experts in that field.
People who mistrust the CDC and WHO, but accept anything about physics, chemistry, or anything else that isn't their specific area of research, aren't being "skeptical". They're just being ideologically biased, affirming their preconceptions without applying that same skepticism to the theories that support their ideologies.
The overwhelming number of virologists, epidemiologists, doctors, and public health experts listen to what the CDC and WHO says because they do know what they're talking about. And they listen as the information changes, because they change their minds when the data available changes. What do you do?
I take their words with a grain of salt just like with anyone else.
Blind trust in science is no different from religious worship.
It is utterly impossible to "think for yourself" when it comes to modern science. To fully understand the thinking and evidence that goes into some of these statements might take decades. You should trust it because all parts of the chain of arguments are being critically looked at by experts all the time.
If you distrust scientists just like you distrust priests, it is your blind distrust that's deeply irrational (under the guise of rationality no less).
Medicine is demonstrably saving lives year on year. Some plagues have been entirely eliminated; for others we're on the verge of stamping them out.
Medicine is a more complex science than physics or chemistry, with more variables leading to more room for errors. But nobody seemed to think medicine was political until it coincided with a political ideology that happened to have a penchant for declaring sciences "political" whenever they didn't want to accept them.
https://time.com/4711764/donald-trump-pretend-truck-photo-wh...
Dont let yourself be fooled by the lamestream media, he wasnt pretending, he really drove that truck, actually a bigger one that that. The biggest truck anyone had ever driven.
"Hey, FDA, Pfizer, etc - I want this vaccine in x months make it work and shout if anyone gives you trouble."
I'd imagine coming from any president that would carry some weight.
If you want to give Trump credit for the vaccine, you need to give him credit for sabotaging and deliberately undermining the effort as well. Trump is the reason the next pandemic is going to be far worse than it needs to be, because thanks to him, anti-vaxx conspiracy belief has been normalized and half the US has made mistrust of science and refusal to vaccinate a fundamental part of their political and cultural identity.
But yes, he got the vaccine completed in record time. Kudos to him for that.
And this fits my world view and comes to a conclusion I agree with so it's clearly "science".