Dr. Fauci Takes on "Anti-Science" Bias Amid Warnings About Increased Coronavirus Infection Rates

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From the article:

During an interview with the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) podcast “Learning Curve,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said “anti-science” bias is to blame for much of the novel coronavirus’s impact on the United States.

“One of the problems we face in the United States is that unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias that people are — for reasons that sometimes are, you know, inconceivable and not understandable — they just don’t believe science and they don’t believe authority,” Fauci said

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Many Trump voters ignore science, and reality. Trump generally tells people that he trusts his gut feelings rather than relying on experts or information.

[soothsayer]

1. Many people in the WH are anti science

Including the head of the task force, I’m sure.

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2. COVID19 does not care.

It is not listening.

[BootinUp]

3. Compare his weight to that of a large waterfowl. Nt

[guillaumeb]

4. That bird would need huge wings. eom

[DBoon]

5. None other than Rush Limbaugh said it

The four corners of deceit: government, academia, science and media. Those institutions are now corrupt and exist by virtue of deceit. That's how they promulgate themselves; it is how they prosper.

Quoted in https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/09/is-the-right-wing-anti-science/344226/ from way back in 2010

Rush said it and they believe it. That's why they were called "dittoheads"

[guillaumeb]

6. There is a speck of truth in what Limbaugh said.

But in reality, it is the far right that deceives its voters.

[Hugin]

7. Fauci is half wrong. There is a large group of people in the US who don't believe in science...

because they believe in the wrong authorities. Those authorities don't believe in science, experts, or experience.

Most of these people are ironically, Authoritarians.

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9. This

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12. Close

They "believe" virtually anyone who will tell them what they want to believe and what they want to hear. The right wing nuts are particularly vulnerable to this. But the left wing has elements of magical thinking too.

[tableturner]

8. These people believe what they WISH were true, instead of what's ACTUALLY true!

[coti]

10. Right. Even calling it a "gut feeling" is generous. nt

[guillaumeb]

11. That is the essence of MAGA.

The MAGA slogan is meaningless, and certainly not a plan, but it provides, for some, a vision of an America that never was.