" Three of the Most Prestigious Scientific Journals Have Condemned Trump

Three of the Most Prestigious Scientific Journals Have Condemned Trump 

 

Slate Articlesby Jane C. Hu /

 

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With the U.S. presidential election less than a month away, three prestigious science publications have recently run editorials about what’s happening—or not happening—in Washington. Holden Thorp, the editor in chief at Science, detailed this administration’s coronavirus missteps in an editorial succinctly titled “Trump Lied About Science.” In another editorial, the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine called our current political leaders’ response to COVID-19 “consistently inadequate,” and Nature’s editors have endorsed Joe Biden for president.

https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/science-nejm-nature-editorials-trump-covid19-response.html

Scientific Journals Are Denouncing Trump. That’s Normal

Wired Top Storiesby Alex Csiszar 

The notion that a split between science and politics must exist is largely a fiction—and one of relatively recent vintage.