Yes, the responses here are instructive. I do however think that there is hope. There are instincts within atleast a minority of Republicans who know inherently that science is all we have. After all, Reagan did start the super collider in Waxahachie. In my view any movement centered around personalities and a sense of identity tend to benefit from people being in the dark rather than being knowledgeable. Hence these attacks on experts, intellectuals, universities and media. I do not think leaders are the long term problem or long term solution. Yes, if there are strong leaders, in the short term one side can achieve its objectives, but it wont last. Trump is not the problem, he is only the symptom. Change need to be at the grassroots level. People who are of the opinion that Science should be promoted, supported and given its deserved central position in the society should get ourselves more educated in developments that are going on at the grassroots level. For instance, if we were to ask ourselves some questions such as below - is homeschooling rates increasing or decreasing in the USA. Is that healthy? - are rural Americans getting adequate continuing education to understand developments in Science and how it impacts their lives? what can be done about it? - is my congressman voting for a budget decision, for or against furthering science and technology in this country? … it is likely that even among the people who want to keep this nations leadership position will not know enough about these. In my view that is the problem.
That cracked me up! But I think all Americans, all of us, could benefit from continuing education. Anyway, education is indeed the problem. Unfortunately, there is a lot of incompetence in the public U.S. educational system--from administrators to teachers. It would be difficult to rectify, and would likely take a long time.
I don't think the public school systems in this country, for the most part, are as bad as many make them out to be . And on the flip side I don't think private charter systems in this country, for the most part, are as good as many make them out to be. The worst of the worst public schools are in the poorest of neighborhoods. Who'd thunk that? Same with health outcomes, infant mortality and life expectancy. And on and on.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31140-5/fulltext "A strong CDC is needed to respond to public health threats, both domestic and international, and to help prevent the next inevitable pandemic. Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics." As usual, Republican response to this is "Lancet is liberal". 35% of our nation openly celebrating ignorance and anti-intellectualism is a recipe for disaster unless the other 65% act. In a democratic society, the most effective way is to vote. Have you registered? What are your plans to get a few more people registered to vote?
You cannot claim to worship at the alter of science amd the say there are 50, 60, 70 genders. You cannot put forth a "sciene" that predicts during the seventies that the earth will be frozen over by 2000, and then present thay same "science" as fact in the year 2020. The left had no science, they have a political cult passing for science.
US proposal for defining gender has no basis in science https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07238-8
That is an editorial article where the author is not named with only one source (here is the study of 14 people back in 2004) that supposedly claims "Discordant Sexual Identity in Some Genetic Males with Cloacal Exstrophy (which is an extremely rare condition) Assigned to Female Sex at Birth" And because of this, we shouldn't classify sex as binary based on physiological characteristics. And you consider this "science". Right.