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A Blinded Science-Denying President
Why scientists
like myself
marched
J ill r ichardSon
Hundreds of thou-
sands of scientists
and their support-
ers recently took to
the streets, marching in favor of
science-based policies. How did
our science-denying president re-
spond?
With one of the biggest lies he’s
told to date — and that’s saying
something.
“Rigorous science is critical
to my administration’s efforts to
achieve the twin goals of econom-
by
ic growth and environmental pro-
tection,” he claimed.“We should
remember that rigorous science
depends not on ideology, but
on a spirit of honest inquiry and
robust debate.”
Is he joking? No seriously,
I’m really asking.
Did he have to hurry away
from the press to hide the laugh
he was bursting to contain af-
ter that whopper came out of his
mouth?
Let’s take a look at Trump’s re-
cord on science so far:
He put Myron Ebell — de-
scribed by Business Insider as “a
man who denies basic science”
— in charge of his Environmen-
tal Protection Agency transition
team. Ebell’s qualifications? He
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worked at an ideological libertar-
ian think tank. He has no science
background.
This administration also reject-
ed the recommendations of gov-
ernment scientists and chose to
allow farmers to continue using
a toxic pesticide known to harm
children.
Meanwhile Trump is trying to
cut scores of science programs,
many of them related to Earth sci-
ence and climate science.
These cuts won’t just harm con-
servation, regulation, and other
goals Trump doesn’t like but are
necessary if we want to continue
living on a hospitable planet. The
cuts also eliminate thousands of
government jobs directly, and cut
programs that help Americans
create jobs and stay competitive in
the global market.
In short, I can’t name a U.S.
president who was more hostile to
science than the current occupant
of the White House. So he’s got
some nerve to even utter the word
“science.”
No wonder scientists felt com-
pelled to leave their labs and com-
puters and march in the streets in
perhaps the first mass demonstra-
tion by scientists in modern history.
As a social scientist myself, I
know what goes into a scientist’s
quest for knowledge and truth. In
each step of the process, a scientist
must examine their own results
and seek critique from peers, and
ask whether our fallible human
brains have somehow made an er-
ror in uncovering the truth of the
world we live in.
Those of us who do this for a
career are serious about our en-
deavors. It takes a lot of humility,
because we must always be pre-
pared to admit when we’re wrong
for the sake of uncovering the
most accurate results possible.
Most of us do our work be-
cause we love it, but also because
we feel passionately that we’re
making our world a better place
— whether we’re working on new
cures for fatal diseases or attempt-
ing to find a more sustainable and
clean form of energy.
It’s heart-wrenching to see an
administration reject this work
we’ve devoted our lives to simply
to score political points, especial-
ly when we know what humanity
stands to lose by ignoring science.
Trump, for example, might do
well to trust the climate scientists
who are predicting sea level rise
before he finds his precious Mar-
a-Lago under water.
But instead he turns a blind eye,
enacts destructive policies that ig-
nore science, and then gaslights
the entire nation with a joke of a
statement about his own purported
belief in rigorous science.
OtherWords columnist Jill
Richardson is the author of Rec-
ipe for America: Why Our Food
System Is Broken and What We
Can Do to Fix It. Distributed by
OtherWords.org.