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...

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