2/ gender expansive belly dancers (beards and women’s clothing), a giant GOLDEN Trump statue, complete unsubtle Trump branding and a Trump merchandise store (with tiny golden statues and balloons).

Every time you think he can’t get weirder, more self-serving, or inept, he can always go lower.

4/ overly simplified descriptions that sound click-worthy. Science takes time and there may be some misunderstandings along the way, but data-driven, science-informed healthcare, innovation, and policy have enabled us to do amazing things. We can’t turn back now.

3/ The idea that scientists KNOW the absolute truth, that experiments are just confirmations of that truth, is really harmful. It confuses people when science updates its understanding based on new information. Of course, it doesn’t help that they tend to let the media control the narrative with

2/ Science experiments are all about NOT knowing (but having a good guess). If you do X and you expect Y and nothing happens you might be frustrated, but you move on or try to refine your idea. If Z happens instead you go, “Wow, I wonder why THAT happened” and you have a whole new line of work.

2/ And then I remembered that, in fact, yes people do actually do that with cancer treatments when they have cancer… we need better information literacy.

5/ They are literally undermining the US across the board on our ability to remain a preeminent world power because they don’t know enough to know what they don’t know.

4/ scale of our government end ups developing a lot of highly specialized and distributed knowledge within its various departments. Consulting these experts and using their knowledge to make informed decisions takes time, but it is also means you don’t make blunders because you don’t know enough.

3/ Yes, our government moves slow, like any large bureaucracy and yes, that is often frustrating and occasionally wasteful. Change is slow because there are long debates that often go nowhere. Unfortunately, however much you dislike this, there is a reason for it. Anything operating on the vast

2/ they slashed those too, potentially crippling US science. They didn’t know that the National Reconnaissance Office was part of our intelligence community (despite the name and Musk’s contract with them), so they published classified information about their headcount.