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Michelle Goldberg FEB. 1, 2018 / Opinion | OP-ED COLUMNIST

In the 1960s and 1970s, the American right set about undermining trust in the mainstream media, which it saw as dangerously infected with liberal assumptions. Later, in debates over evolution and the environment, some on the right attacked the validity of modern science. By the turn of the millennium, it was an article of faith among conservative ideologues that whole realms of human expertise were in fact intricate structures of propaganda that trapped the unwary in a matrix of deceit.

In an invaluable 2017 Vox essay titled "Donald Trump and the Rise of Tribal Epistemology," David Roberts quoted a 2009 Rush Limbaugh rant: "Science has been corrupted. We know the media has been corrupted for a long time. Academia has been corrupted. None of what they do is real. It's all lies!" With Trump, this ethos reached the White House. And now, to protect Trump, the right has expanded its war on empiricism to that most c...See More
T.E.C. - Iowa The author paints a picture of the right discarding science, when the problem is not the right. It was corporations such as big tobacco, big oil, and others that corrupted science regarding cancer, climate change, junk foods, and more.

He paints a picture of the media being corrupted, but this happened when corporations were allowed to buy...See More
Feb 3, 2018


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