This is not entirely new, but more and more, it seems that the USA is drifting into an attitude of anti-science.   Some history of scientific trends from Google AI. Ancient Greece laid the groundwork for modern science. More than two millennia later came the Scientific Revolution, from Galileo on. The Romanticism movement from the late 1700s was concerned about separating science from humanity. In the 1800s came the Industrial Revolution, when Luddites protested automation and technology. In the 1900s, some totalitarian states, like the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, suppressed science and technology to serve political needs?  Sound familiar today? Today, anti-science attitudes are fueled by political, religious and corporate interest, on topics such as global warming, vaccine efficiency and evolution. Thus, ... Why Does MAGA Hate Science? Against all the evidence of horrific, devastating weather around us, climate change remains “a hoax.” An anti-vaxxer–caused outbreak o...

The  Vera C. Rubin Observatory  atop Cerro Pachón in Chile recently experienced first light last night, and released the above photo. But before focusing on that new telescope, the latest summary of what is occurring in the Israel and USA vs Iran War, where controlled orchestration seems to be the mode of operation. Iran did "take revenge" at Trump's attack on its nuclear facilities by lobbing a few missiles into U.S.'s Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar . However, Iran first alerted Qatar that this was coming, with a sense that we are not at war with you, but only hate America.  Sort of Trump saying we are not at war with Iran, but only its nuclear facilities.  There were no casualties at the U.S. base. Of course, Qatar informed the U.S., so the ten missiles were all intercepted and destroyed in the air. It seems that Iran had to satisfy it's people, so on TV exaggerated the magnitude of its attack. There are more than 50,000 American troops scattered throughout the Midd...

The science and research fields are alarmed by President Donald Trump's anti-science policies.  The White House would argue that it is pushing for  gold-standard science . What is that? The administration released their  MAHA Report , injecting politics into science. And in a “Gold Standard Science” executive order last week, President Donald Trump outlined a new level of oversight over what counts as quality evidence and what does not, putting “a senior appointee designated by the agency head” in charge of overseeing “alleged violations.” Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said in a briefing that the goal of the executive order is to “rebuild the American people’s confidence in the national science enterprise … the status quo of our research enterprise has brought diminishing returns, wasted resources and public distrust.” A petition led by the advocacy group Stand Up for Science with more than 5,000 signatories says th...