The ‘Party of Science’ Is in Fact Anti-Science, by Thomas Gallatin

By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post, May 11, 2022

Democrats disingenuously attempt to use science to rubber stamp their leftist political agenda.

Democrats and leftists love to proclaim that they are the ones on the side of “science.” Excuse us — Science™. They do so as they point the finger of condemnation at conservatives and Republicans, accusing them of being “anti-science” and therefore representing an existential threat to not only science but to society itself.

If judging by the percentage of Democrat faculty members in America’s institutions of higher learning is the parameter used to determine which political party is most affiliated with scientists, one might have an argument. Yet whatever the political persuasion of the majority of American scientists, it is not a legitimate scientific metric for determining which party platform most stands on the science. …