Trump's War On Science

We've seen Trump and his cohorts disparage science plenty of times in favor of those who despoil the planet for their momentary profit, and it's important to know just how malignantly he is doing so.  Here is one researcher's take on it:

I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations

Victoria Herrman

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations

She says:

"The consequences of vanishing citations, however, pose a far more serious consequence than website updates. Each defunct page is an effort by the Trump administration to deliberately undermine our ability to make good policy decisions by limiting access to scientific evidence."


Dr. Hermann is being very self-restrained, as Trump's kind of anti-science thinking has the potential to bring out about human extinction.  It's not only Trump of course but the rightwing in general who swallow and then help to perpetrate industry propaganda, the ultimate stupidest of course being the religious ones.