Jan 22, 2022 06:50 PM
https://www.science20.com/content/democr...isnt_there
EXCERPTS: A new opinion piece in Nature says that President Joe Biden has mostly followed the science and he is a lot better than President Trump - but how much of that is filtered through the reality that one is in their political tribe and the other guy a Republican muddles the issue. Academics said the same thing about Obama over Bush and it was so clearly partisan (and scientifically wrong) we wrote a whole book on it.
Yes, President Biden says he is a firm believer in climate change, but has he done anything to mitigate it? Not in ways beyond photo ops. [...] On COVID-19, his results are even murkier but the authors of the op-ed again instead choose to go by what he says and ignore everything else...
In actual behavior during his first year, Biden was working the phones to get a trillion-dollar stimulus plan that would almost entirely go into the hands of government employees and their allied contractors and dismissive the idea of giving Americans COVID-19 testing kids. He ridiculed it in October and in December his press liaison...
What he was doing was weaponizing science for his political agenda. Using the CDC, he attempted to use COVID-19 to create a regulation saying that no one could be evicted during the pandemic. The courts struck it down. An agency stuffed with career bureaucrats so intent on getting more raises by inventing new pandemics to 'prevent' were found to be completely unprepared for a real crisis, but they believed themselves to be experts on property rights. He then attempted to end-run Congress and mandate that his OSHA could put corporations in the nanny government business and force employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The Supreme Court struck that one down.
It's certainly expected that Democrats in academia want to believe he is better, and it is no surprise they attempt to wrap their politics in the flag of science, but it is not evidence-based... (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS: A new opinion piece in Nature says that President Joe Biden has mostly followed the science and he is a lot better than President Trump - but how much of that is filtered through the reality that one is in their political tribe and the other guy a Republican muddles the issue. Academics said the same thing about Obama over Bush and it was so clearly partisan (and scientifically wrong) we wrote a whole book on it.
Yes, President Biden says he is a firm believer in climate change, but has he done anything to mitigate it? Not in ways beyond photo ops. [...] On COVID-19, his results are even murkier but the authors of the op-ed again instead choose to go by what he says and ignore everything else...
In actual behavior during his first year, Biden was working the phones to get a trillion-dollar stimulus plan that would almost entirely go into the hands of government employees and their allied contractors and dismissive the idea of giving Americans COVID-19 testing kids. He ridiculed it in October and in December his press liaison...
What he was doing was weaponizing science for his political agenda. Using the CDC, he attempted to use COVID-19 to create a regulation saying that no one could be evicted during the pandemic. The courts struck it down. An agency stuffed with career bureaucrats so intent on getting more raises by inventing new pandemics to 'prevent' were found to be completely unprepared for a real crisis, but they believed themselves to be experts on property rights. He then attempted to end-run Congress and mandate that his OSHA could put corporations in the nanny government business and force employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The Supreme Court struck that one down.
It's certainly expected that Democrats in academia want to believe he is better, and it is no surprise they attempt to wrap their politics in the flag of science, but it is not evidence-based... (MORE - missing details)
