Can you imagine Carl Sagan debating RFK Jr. about vaccines?
The Trump administration has elevated every fallacy, superstition, and conspiracy that has been consigned against science itself.
Climate change and vaccine deniers permeate Trump’s administration and his own personal views.
Watching the great Sagan testify to Congress, I fantasized about whether Carl was still with us, if he led a series of debates against these fucking fools.
That would have been something.
In his last days on earth, he wrote a book called The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, to cast aspersions against con-men on the subject of science and medicine,
“A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace”
Open thread.