President Donald Trump is using his metaphorical black Sharpie to draw
his own mental map of the spiraling coronavirus crisis — vastly
complicating the work of public health officials scrambling to contain
the spread of the deadly disease.
Trump himself has regularly dismissed scientific experts and once
boasted to an interviewer he had “a natural instinct for science,”
pointing out his uncle was an MIT professor. His own statements suggest
otherwise: He’s blamed California wildfires on inadequate raking of
forests, claimed noisy windmills cause cancer and enthusiastically
described a stealth fighter jet as “invisible."
Perhaps more alarming to scientists, still, are the ways they say
Trump’s administration has distorted or smothered their work,
particularly on energy and climate change. For instance, his
administration tried to relax car emissions rules using botched data
that purported to show that pollution saves lives. It's also refused to
publicize dozens of government-funded studies on how climate change
could hurt crops and create new health risks.
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