If you're conservative and you love Donald Trump, okay, you're in the anti-science

crowd. No problem. Just don't up to it. You don't want science published because you're afraid of

facts. And so you're part of the party of ignorance.

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How did America rise up from a backwards country to be one of the greatest nations the world has

ever known? We pioneered industries and all of this required the greatest innovations in science

and technology in the world. And so science is a fundamental part of the country that we are.

But in this, the 21st century, when it comes time to make decisions about science,

it seems to me people have lost the ability to judge what is true and what is not,

what is reliable, what is not reliable, what should you believe, what should you not believe?

And when you have people who don't know much about science,

standing in denial of it and rising to power, that is a recipe for the complete dismantling of our

informed democracy. Let us demand that educators around America teach evolution not as fact,

but as theory. Increasing number of parents showing skepticism about vaccinations. Voters have

approved a ban on GMOs. It's called climate change unproven science. That's not the country I

remember growing up in. Not that we didn't have challenges. I'm old enough to remember the 60s

in the 70s. I've got a hot war and a cold war. Civil rights movement and all this was going on.

But I don't remember any time where people were standing in denial of what science was.

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