Heh. I called it. I knew that conservatives would try to prosecute climate change activists

[Stranger_On_A_Train]

@Happy_Fun_Ball

Anyway, it looks like the Trump administration is moving to charge climate change groups for “conspiracy to defraud the United States." I knew it would come to this. It is the logical conclusion to their denouncement and denial of science.

Oh, they aren’t going to stop with this. To the extent that we are already not doing anything effective about climate change other than crafting ‘narratives’ about how great we are doing with renewables, they are actually trying to shut down not just climate monitoring but surveillance for extreme weather events and public outreach.

@Monty

They’re still clamoring to prosecute (or worse yet, execute without trail) Doctor Anthony Fauci, an actual hero of our time.

From a post I wrote nearly five years ago now:

@Stranger_On_A_Train

There are, of course, professions actually working in the field of public health and infectious disease research whose knowledge and experience far eclipses dilettantes such as Gates, but despite the recent meteoric celebrity of Dr. Anthony Fauci, as of six months ago you’d be hard pressed to find one person in a hundred who had actually heard of him despite the fact that he’s been the Captain America of the infectious disease world for thirty-odd years and has been involved in addressing nearly every disease epidemic in the Western Hemisphere, not only directing NIAID but working in the field with patients, publishing papers, and co-editing a widely read series of handbooks on the topics of allergies and infectious disease.

Tony Fauci has been pursued and threatened for promoting medical science in the public interest because there are people who just don’t want to hear anything that contradicts their parochial world view. I can’t even imagine what it is like to have a forty-odd year career devoted to public service only to have a venal kook like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. be appointed Secretary of HHS and systematically dismantle basic public health systems like childhood vaccination and pathogen surveillance. We are really going down a path of superstition and persecution of anyone do defies this regressive doctrine. Margaret Atwood intended The Handmaid’s Tale to be a somewhat hyperbolic allegory, not a futurist prediction of the United States, but here we are, I guess.

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