From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.

I'm Al Etzen.

Since coming into office, President Trump has repeatedly flabbergasted scientists by sending

tweets and making statements that go against the facts.

For example, coronavirus is new and scientists don't know how it will behave, but as the

death toll from the virus passed a thousand earlier this month, Trump said this to a group

of governors.

Now the virus that we're talking about having to do, you know, a lot of people think

that goes away in April with the heat as the heat comes in.

Typically that will go away in April.

Doctors who study the coronavirus say it's way too early to know if this will happen.

Trump had this to say about winter binds that generate electricity.

And they say the noise causes cancer.

You tell me that one.

Yeah, there's no evidence to support that.

And back in September when Hurricane Dorian was ripping through the Bahamas, Trump insisted

he was right and predicting the storm would also hit Alabama even though the National Weather

Service said it wouldn't.

Mr. President, you're going to Weather jail.

Despite jokes on late night talk shows, lots of experts have serious concerns about the

president's attitude toward science and data.

We're going to be looking at how the Trump administration has turned its back on science

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