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  • Wolfgang LuchtW_Lucht@mstdn.social
    Jul 29, 2026, 4:54 PM

    We've normalised right-wing lunacy and it has to stop. It's dangerous.

    Rather than calling today's hearing in the US with Fauci what it is, a frightening attack on science, media are calling it a "contentious" meeting. They focus on Fauci's defense rather than the unacceptability of highly aggressive, personal attacks on a distinguished scientist. By explaining what the right-wing conspiracies are after, before discussing them, they are part of popularising them.

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  • Wolfgang LuchtW_Lucht@mstdn.social
    Jul 29, 2026, 5:02 PM

    It is the contention of these right-wingers that they, by merit of having been elected, are the ultimate arbiters of what's true. It's dangerous. It's designed to undermine the public's sense of truth, a necessary element of authoritarian power - they always attack scholarship. It's also a late attempt to cover up the incredible damage their politics is causing. That started with their ideological responses during the pandemic. But climate science is on their list, too.

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