Episode 221: Anti-Science Mugging on the Right and the Ascent of American Anti-Intellectualism
Citations Needed
Citations Needed
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we detail demagogues' favorite faux populist schtick of taking scientific studies out of context and mocking them, often with help from mainstream media. with guest Brenda Ekwurzel, director of climate science for the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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| 1:01.0 | United Press International cautioned in 1975. |
| 1:03.6 | Shrimp on a treadmill. |
| 1:09.6 | Rand Paul mocked National Science Foundation Studies, reported Forbes in 2021. |
| 1:16.9 | Government Waste Report finds $400,000 spent to give lonely rats cocaine. |
| 1:24.2 | Absurd! Fox News told its viewers in 2024. These headlines paint a picture of a wasteful, |
| 1:27.8 | woke liberal government that's been squandering taxpayer money on something wholly undeserving, frivolous scientific studies. Tens of thousands to millions of dollars, |
| 1:33.4 | we're told, are being handed out like candy so scientists can sit around watching monkeys |
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