2023-05-29 11:12:26
Home > Rants > Should science get involved in politics? written on May 29, 2023 at 1:12 p.m. Article published in the newspaper nº 113
In a recent editorial, the scientific journal Nature announces that it will probably take a position on the occasion of the American presidential election of 2024. According to her, ” when candidates pose a threat to reason, science must speak out “. A posture already adopted in 2020 in favor of candidate Biden against candidate Trump, or in 2012 by calling for the re-election of Barack Obama. In 2020, the editorial in Nature warned of the danger of an additional mandate from Donald Trump, “ for science, but also for the health and well-being of American society and the whole world “. The article claimed that “when individuals running for the Oval Office have a heavy damage toll, they blatantly disregard the facts […]it becomes important to be heard ».
Of which act. Especially since no one sees anything wrong when IPCC scientists challenge governments on actions to take against climate change. So why would Nature’s approach be a problem? Perhaps openly choosing one side (the Democrats) over another (the Republicans) is displaying a political orientation that seems incongruous. Because if the arguments put forward by Nature against Donald Trump are audible, how can we understand that either sacrificed scientific neutrality for the benefit of the re-election of Barack Obama? From memory, Mitt Romney [candidat des Républicains en 2012, NDLR] did not undermine “science” or “scientific institutions” and posed no “threat to reason”.
But above all, if the IPCC has never been confronted with scandals involving its probity, it is different for the famous scientific institutions, and more specifically health institutions, supported by Nature. The NIH (National Institutes of Health) of Anthony Fauci, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of Rochelle Walensky, even the WHO are today subject to the question of commissions and courts, and confronted with the revelations which make following investigations post-Covid. As for scientific journals, should we remember that The Lancet published on the ineffectiveness of hydroxychloroquine a study so corrupt that it led to the so-called “Lancet Gate” affair2.
Therefore, one can wonder about the position taken by Nature. When scientific probity is corroded by lack of integrity, what can political support be worth if not consolidating an interpersonal relationship? It is in any case yet another collusion which completes the pronouncement of the divorce with the general public.
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