What Actually Happened To Science?

Social media was certainly a big factor in beginning and expanding the anti-science “movement,” if you will.

But the election of Donald Trump had even more impact.  All at once we found ourselves in a world in which the concept of “facts” and “truth” no longer had meaning; the most powerful person on Earth simply made things up if they were to his financial or political advantage.

Did this affect his popularity?  Not too much.  Four years after this debacle got kicked off, 74 million people, almost 47% of the electorate, voted for a second term.  And now, after more than 60 different lawsuits found no evidence of fraud, most of them still believe the Big Lie, i.e., a rigged election.