Yglesias: "Trump's War on Science"

Weak sauce.

After a decade of the left Lysenkoizing science, this is decidedly unimpressive.

JFKj is basically the only notable entry in his list.

He's not nothing--he does concern me. (Though he's not wrong about everything.)

Look, here's a prediction that is barely even a prediction because we know it will be confirmed: if the right continues its ascent, it'll start messing with science, too. We pretty much know this will happen.

But right now, what it's mostly doing is unLysenkoizing it.

Hence the girlish blue-team shrieking.

Here's another prediction: I'll likely be slow to acknowledge it when the right starts doing it. Because I'm so appalled by what the left has become that I've developed a fondness for its most salient enemies.

So don't expect me to be the canary in the coal mine on this one.

In fact, I was very slow to recognize how loony and politicized both climatology and criminology had become. The race stuff and sex (now "gender") stuff I've been on about in one form or another since grad school--though I really though it had died out, so I didn't say much about it for a while.

Anyway.