Fauci's warning to America: 'We're living in a progressively anti-science era and that's a very dang

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

dangerous thing'

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who turns 82 on Saturday, wants the record to reflect that he is not retiring. Really, he isn't. It's just that after 54 years as a government scientist and advisor to seven presidents, he is leaving the National Institutes of Health at the end of the year.

The nation's top infectious disease doctor insists he still wants to write, make public appearances and continue to shape research on infectious diseases. So he will continue to be a presence in the lives of his many fans — and his equally zealous detractors.

As Fauci tells it in his distinctive Brooklyn accent, he drove onto the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md., in June 1968, a 27-year-old physician fresh out of residency training. He burrowed into the burgeoning field of immunology and was well situated to help identify the source of a mysterious illness afflicting gay men in the early 1980s.

Fauci went on to lead the federal government's efforts to bring HIV/AIDS to heel after becoming director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984. In the decades that followed, he was key to shaping the U.S. response to the H1N1 flu pandemic, the Ebola outbreak and the Zika virus.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/fauci-s-warning-to-america-we-re-living-in-a-progressively-anti-science-era-and-that-s-a-very-dangerous-thing/ar-AA15zvMF

People like Ron DeSantis want to turn America into an idiocracy.

[Initech]

1. It's truly scary to think how far backwards people are going on science.

I guess if you're stupid and crazy enough to believe that the earth is flat, you'll believe any bullshit they put in front of you.

[SheltieLover]

2. Kicking for visibility

[bamagal62]

3. It's been the Republican goal.

Ruin our education system. Apparently, it’s working.
A bunch of people who don’t know what they don’t know.

[certainot]

5. it's the fucking radio - the only unique advantage the cons have - and americans ignore it

[bamagal62]

8. So true.

I just wish that some wealthy liberal would buy up some radio stations. There’s a lot out there to fight against. But, if we had a strong education system that valued teachers and taught critical thinking skills, we’d be a lot better off. They stopped teaching civics. Students don’t understand geography or history. (My daughters history teacher at Inman Middle School in Atlanta, couldn’t find the Czech Republic on the map. She had to show him where it was.) We’ve made it so awful to be a teacher that most don’t want to do it. I used to teach. I wouldn’t do it now for anything. Republicans have made “educated” a bad word. But, they’ve succeeded in having a very dumbed down society. It’s been their goal for a long time, That’s why teachers make nothing. It’s awful. They’ve been chipping away at our education system for decades.

[certainot]

9. it's a 95% monopoly - it's not about buying stations it's antithetical to democracy and must be dest

destroyed/democratized and that would be really easy using AI to digitize it and analyze it. it would be a disaster for the ad industry.

also getting the hundreds of universities and pro sports teams to stop supporting hundreds of the loudest stations

those stations, supported by universities!, have played a huge part in breaking down public ed, attacking teachers, etc and unlike fox are locally coordinated

[BootinUp]

4. thats no lie. nt

[Hekate]

6. KnR & thanks for your service to humanity, Dr Fauci

[progressoid]

7. If you listen to any RW radio etc., you'll hear how much they hate him (and what he stands for)

And it's not just the yokels that call in. Hosts will talk about trying him for murder, treason, abuse of power, you name it. It's fucking insane.

[Slammer]

10. Isaac Asimov, 1980

A Cult of Ignorance

https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf

[mitch96]

11. I was thinking of the same article.. beat me to it. Carl Sagen said basically the same thing

https://bigthink.com/words-of-wisdom/carl-sagan-warned-us-about-the-risks-of-scientific-ignorance-25-years-ago/

“We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.
That’s a clear prescription for disaster.”