Superb article.

The anti science is a symptom of the rampant frustration that it seems to me a lot of Americans have for their Government and their system.

I'm an Australian. A general check up is either free or up to about $30.

I just had heart surgery. It didn't cost me anything, but I did have to wait two years for it.

The pills to decrease the chance of a clot that might cause a stroke were $6.70.

An American is happy that their money is spent on a road they might need some day, but God forbid it is used to provide medical services that they might need one day. Go Fund Me desperation is for that.

Prisons are run for profit and black people outnumber white people 5 to 1 because of the bias of the courts and the environment a lot of black folks are stuck with growing up.

Medicine is for profit.

Even Government positions like The Prez are now run for profit.

Schools are also for profit. Education is hugely expensive.

What do you get when all that happens in one country? Folks who think science is a con, but who go get crystals to cleanse their aura.

People who let guns kills their children by the thousands, but who then make wishes to a magic sky person to make it stop.

And people who think killing the germs in milk that might make them sick is actually a conspiracy. That natural milk is healthy.

Some of the same people I've just listed think the Earth is flat, even though we've known its approximate shape and circumference for over 2000 years.

These same folks are told that their country, the one with rubbish health care, and a felon for a Prez to come, is the one every other country looks up to.

Within this same country are decent hard working folks who read books, look up stuff on the Internet, they learn and are educated, and fair, and honest. They know the Holocaust happened. They don't think skin colour makes any difference. They know that transgender folks are not the majority, but deserve not to be persecuted. They also know that tariffs cause inflation and will make everything more expensive.

Those folks are trapped within a society governed essentially by corporate interests, and uneducated indoctrinated fools.

Sad times.

I dearly hope that not too many have to die before RFK Jr's anti science brainlessness is pushed aside.

That not too many people have to lose their jobs before Trump's total lack of business skill and lack of basic education is somehow dealt with.

I hope that Musk's efforts to buy a seat in the Whitehouse doesn't further the fascist agendas of Project 2025.

(Musk arrived in the USA on an education visa then failed to actually go to Stanford. He is currently an illegal immigrant).

Strange times ahead for the USA, and unfortunately, the rest of the World.