It's Time for Fascist Science
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Ready for "alternative facts"-based science? Trump's ordering the US government to fake the numbers in economic, climate, and census data is straight out of Stalin's playbook.
Plus - Thom reads from "United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post- Truth America" by Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon.
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| 1:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 1:16.2 | Welcome with program. |
| 1:17.9 | Scientists decry Trump's energy chief's plan to update climate reports, saying this is exactly what Stalin did. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah. I mean, the U.S. Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, |
| 1:39.0 | coming under criticism, shall we say? He's a former oil and gas executive, first off. Now he's in charge of, or has taken the responsibility to produce new reports showing that or purporting to show, |
| 1:46.4 | that carbon dioxide is actually a good thing because it helps plants grow, |
| 1:51.1 | that greenhouse gases are not affecting the climate in a way that's problematic, |
| 1:57.2 | that we should burn more fossil fuels, that we should have less green energy. |
| 2:03.1 | This is kind of weird because the energy department, most of their portfolio is actually our |
| 2:08.7 | nuclear weapons. It was called the energy department back in the day because the fig leaf |
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