Science – And Science Fiction – Are Siding With Biden
Well its obvious where the #StarTrek alumni vote is going this year. #TrekTheVote pic.twitter.com/xbaatm8xDi
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) October 13, 2020
Why Nature supports Joe Biden for US president, Nature
“No president in recent history has tried to politicize government agencies and purge them of scientific expertise on the scale undertaken by this one. The Trump administration’s actions are accelerating climate change, razing wilderness, fouling air and killing more wildlife — as well as people.”
Dying in a Leadership Vacuum, New England Journal of Medicine
“The United States came into this crisis with enormous advantages. Along with tremendous manufacturing capacity, we have a biomedical research system that is the envy of the world. We have enormous expertise in public health, health policy, and basic biology and have consistently been able to turn that expertise into new therapies and preventive measures. And much of that national expertise resides in government institutions. Yet our leaders have largely chosen to ignore and even denigrate experts.”
Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden, Scientific American
“It is not certain how many of these and his other ambitions Biden will be able to accomplish; much depends on laws to be written and passed by Congress. But he is acutely aware that we must heed the abundant research showing ways to recover from our present crises and successfully cope with future challenges.”
Wonder if Sir Patrick said “make is so” for a Biden Presidency. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Yea he did.
Is this a politics forum?
For the past 4 years it has been Trump space politics 24/7. Every 4 years other viewpoints emerge,
Yeah, but this blog post has nothing to do with Biden’s space policies (that is unless he’s relying on StarTrek alumni to come up with a space policy).
I’d like to hear a clarification of Biden’s space policy, but this is not it.
Please tell me where it says anything about Biden’s space policy.
OK, then provide data to the contrary otherwise … where are the Trump endorsements by scientific journals, lists of prominent scientists …
They’ve forgotten about the Prime Directive:
“Starfleet personnel must not interfere in the normal development of any society. Starfleet vessels and crew members are expendable to prevent violation
of this rule.” 😉 PS – Although our politics don’t match up, Bob Picardo (Doctor on Voyager) and I are the best of friends. He’s a fine fellow, a great actor and singer, a good father, and would give you the shirt off his back to help you if he thought you were in need.
But it is perfectly acceptable for people to support Trump Administration and their space political statement without criticism? I have seen no one criticizing William Shatner for his pro-Trump stance.
Didn’t mean it as a criticism, Keith, but I guess as a failed witticism. Everyone should be able to express their views and use whatever influence they might have. Since these folks are Star Trek characters, the Prime Directive seemed to me to kind of apply to them in a sly way (or not).
Dude you are reading far too much into this. Seriously.
Science is important. We live in a world that if anything is getting more complex every day. The problems of resource depletion or by relation anthropogenic climate change took generations to create and will not be solved without time and science. Show me an anti-science administration and you’ll be sure to find one that ignores more problems than most. After all, you can’t ignore problems and still respect and listen to experts. You’ll shoot the experts, as it all goes together.
Take what’s happened at the CDC for example –Berger covering
it nicely here:
https://arstechnica.com/sci…
It not that there’s some disagreement on numbers, resolved after more data, everyone figuring things out together and learning, policy people and experts and scientists, and business, and informed citizens, it’s that when the people in charge respond to an anti-sci crowd (anti-educated, anti-government, anti-experts, etc.) they can’t help but make things worse.
Ignorance and doing nothing becomes a feature if you respond to a base that is only interested in going back to 1952 (and them and only them in charge and with a voice).
I’ve been heartened to learn more women than ever are getting a college degree. We are going to need education to come out of that
stagnation where it seems the percent of people going to college has remained the same since the early 1970s. That number needs to go up. It seems women will lead the way.
https://www.theatlantic.com…
Science and those trying to get a handle on the complex topics of today (economics, science, engineering, sociology, medicine, etc.) deserves respect, not scorn.
These political leanings here just show who seems to understand
they will need all the smarts we have in this world to solve the complex problems that threaten our being around at all as we know it.