Attacks on scientific expertise have been increasing, especially in politics. Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is among the more prominent people who have done that.
I think of it this way : movies were really popular before talkies came in. So, movies didn’t die off when they started talking, but it was a new era. Same thing here; it’s still anti-intellectual, just better and shinier
new era you say? did that reset after the first time trump was elected, or immediately following the second? new era, for fucks sake
I think of it this way : movies were really popular before talkies came in. So, movies didn’t die off when they started talking, but it was a new era. Same thing here; it’s still anti-intellectual, just better and shinier