Thread by @neubadah

Unprecedented statements from scientists & scientific institutions on the Trump administration's handling of the Covid19 pandemic and the 2020 election, a 🧵:

Starting with the most recent editorial from @NEJM

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The @NEJM editors:

"Our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs."

https://twitter.com/NEJM/status/1313950980224868352?s=20

The @sciam editors:

"The evidence & the science show that [Trump's] badly damaged the US & its people—because he rejects evidence & science. The most devastating example is his dishonest & inept response to the pandemic, which cost more than 190k [lives]"

https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1305854127721910275?s=20

From @ScienceMagazine editor @hholdenthorp:

"...a U.S. president has deliberately lied about science in a way that was imminently dangerous to human health and directly led to widespread deaths of Americans."

science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65…

From @Marcia4Science and @VictorDzau @theNASEM:

"We find ongoing reports & incidents of the politicization of science, particularly the overriding of evidence and advice from public health officials and derision of government scientists, to be alarming."

https://twitter.com/theNASEM/status/1309149755608641538?s=20

In this @NatureNews piece by @jefftollef:

“This is not just ineptitude, it’s sabotage,” - Jeffrey Shaman, epidemiologist @Columbia

“I’ve never seen such an orchestrated war on the environment or science,” - @GovCTW, former EPA head and governor

https://twitter.com/naturenews/status/1313418768417255429

To the current CDC director from his predecessor:

"The biggest challenge in a century & we let the country down."

"It is a slaughter & not just a political dispute."

adding that his role is "servant to the public," not "servant to a corrupt president".

https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1313622352492662785?s=20

Editors of @TheLancet:

"The US must move away from a system in which health care is politicised... & tied to employment, income, & immigration status."..."Trump's isolationist & anti-scientific administration has de-prioritised health & health care."

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

This is a good time to share a couple of pieces in @sciam:

"Yes, Science Is Political", by @AlyssaShearer4 @ingridjoylyn @steminist_tiara @Chwistofu (via @laurahelmuth): scientificamerican.com/article/yes-sc…

"Science Has Always Been Inseparable from Politics", by me:
blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/sci…

Four former CDC directors (@DrTomFrieden, @DrRichBesser, et al):

"We cannot recall over our collective tenure a single time when political pressure led to a change in the interpretation of scientific evidence."

https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1283030790541135875?s=20

Over 1200 scientists of the @theNASEM.

“It’s one thing for the political establishment not to respond very well to a crisis that happens around the world,”...“It’s quite another thing to be actively denigrating the science & making things up routinely.”

theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…

In a letter to HHS and NIH, 77 Nobel prize-winning scientists denounce the administration's "preposterous" defunding of a respected research group studying coronaviruses (while we're in a coronavirus pandemic).

(via @aizenglobe)
npr.org/sections/goats…

In a scathing letter, over 70 scientists and physicians rebuke Scott Atlas for promoting “falsehoods and misrepresentations of science” in his role as an advisor on the coronavirus task force.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/stanf…

Editorial in @nature, via @hcpearson:

"The conventions that have guided the relationship between science and politics are under threat, and Nature cannot stand by in silence."

See @NatureNews piece by @jefftollef I posted earlier in this thread for more.

https://twitter.com/hcpearson/status/1313515994116218880?s=20