Just part of the Republican war on facts

Trust in science has become increasingly partisan. https://t.co/SYCoqoXede pic.twitter.com/WA9LfBnZDp
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) April 29, 2022

Trump’s attack on the FDA

The Biden administration will be guided by science, not right wing politics.

HHS and the FDA are spending the Trump administration’s last days locked in another power struggle, after the health department blindsided the FDA with a series of major policy changes https://t.co/gNAknXtMPC
— POLITICO (@politico) January 13, 2021

But Azar, infuriated by the FDA’s defiance in a showdown over vaccine standards, has spent recent weeks openly plotting Hahn's ouster. @adamcancryn @ddiamond https://t.co/nyg8MjqNyD
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) October 22, 2020

BREAKING: 7 former bipartisan FDA commissioners including former Trump commissioner condemn Trump administration politicization of the FDA.

This is an enormous statement. https://t.co/pLMaV7pwpW
— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸 (@ASlavitt) September 29, 2020

Trump, White House demand FDA justify tough standards for coronavirus vaccine, raising concerns of political interference https://t.co/8fTZuklCn8
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 26, 2020

In a stunning declaration of authority, Alex Azar, the health secretary, barred the nation’s health agencies, including the FDA, from signing any new rules regarding the nation’s foods, medicines, medical devices and other products, including vaccines https://t.co/Y66ATzWaw9
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) September 20, 2020

NEW: Inside a tumultuous week at the FDA, where an over-the-top WH announcement on plasma worried agency insiders that it became a prop in the president's reelection campaign and undermined its credibility. w/ @lauriemcginley2 @jdawsey1 @Carolynyjohnson https://t.co/FUEcyTz02n
— Yasmeen Abutaleb (@yabutaleb7) August 30, 2020

Trump administration sides with industry instead of science

Scientific evidence about the downsides to eating red meat, ultraprocessed foods and high amounts of sodium is mounting. But the government won't examine those issues in its dietary guidelines, under orders from @USDA and @HHSGov officials. By @lreiley https://t.co/NDIHf4F5SY
— Juliet Eilperin (@eilperin) August 31, 2019

So… 44% of Republicans don’t know what the scientific method is. https://t.co/x4xwoocRQ9
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) August 31, 2019

Many Republicans don’t trust science.

Trump administration killing off science units at Agriculture Department

It’s part of their war on government, facts, and science.

Read this about the Trump Admin killing off the science units at the Agriculture Dept. Termination notices are apparently going out now — most of these units will lose almost all their staff. Decades of priceless high-level scientific expertise, all off-loaded indiscriminately: https://t.co/piE1PjLH7e
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) August 8, 2019

How did “drain the swamp” come to mean pardon Blagojevich and fire all the scientists https://t.co/Sv5284yBPQ
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) August 9, 2019

At the same time that Trump has destroyed the Agriculture Department's science research division. https://t.co/uAgbSz0qa7
— Diana Butler Bass (@dianabutlerbass) August 8, 2019

https://t.co/UvjwghrbTu
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) May 30, 2019

U.S. Department of Agriculture officials made a behind-the scenes-effort last year to cast doubt on a study co-authored by two University of Washington researchers about how climate change would affect the nutrients in rice. https://t.co/64NMYAskqN
— The Seattle Times (@seattletimes) August 11, 2019

Net farm income has fallen 45% since a high of $123.4 billion in 2013 to about $63 billion last year, according to the US Department of Agriculture. https://t.co/2GyLUE4bgc
— EssenViews (@essenviews) August 11, 2019

While Trump's aid to farmers will help the sector in the short term, the level of subsidies threatens to prompt further and future trade actions against U.S. agriculture

By Joe Glauber, former USDA chief economisthttps://t.co/POu0F1jshl
— Chad P. Bown (@ChadBown) August 6, 2019

USDA shrinks buyout packages for employees who won't relocate to Kansas City https://t.co/FuMR6MrhrF pic.twitter.com/QMij7SJsVo
— Janet Shan (@hinterlandg) August 20, 2019

Return the @USDA science & research division to D.C. and hire back the experts that were fired or forced to resign.#EndtheGOPWarOnScience https://t.co/juCvExx2C8
— Nicolas Falacci (@NickFalacci) February 2, 2021

Another Trump attack on scientific research

USDA orders scientists to say published research is "preliminary" https://t.co/uIgOaALHtK
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 20, 2019

Science is unwelcome in the Trump administration

Trump is meeting with North Korea without an adviser who is an expert on nuclear physics.

“I was a top climate adviser, and they reassigned me to collect money from oil companies — come on.” Good stuff from ⁦@CoralMDavenport⁩ https://t.co/mniig9PU5R

— John Schwartz (@jswatz) June 9, 2018

The article linked to in the tweet notes: “Mr. Trump is the first president since 1941 not to name a science adviser, a position created during World War II to guide the Oval Office on technical matters ranging from nuclear warfare to global pandemics.”

Remember, he thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax. Not listening to scientists will affect public health and safety.

Sad!

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