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Originally Posted by ThePrince
I'll start by saying that in general, I am far more on the "woke" side when it comes to science and just trusting the experts. I'm not smart enough to understand the inner workings of every single health and science issue - we absolutely have to trust the people who are educated and trained in these subjects.
With that said, multiple people have asked for an example, and there are absolutely examples of the left doing what is described here and politicizing science. Biggest example I can think of is COVID lockdowns - once the pandemic died down a bit, if you were for opening things back up, you got destroyed for being a far right MAGA that hated science.
When you look at the data, I'm not sure there was a worse affect of the pandemic than what we've seen in education and children simply not at learning at the level they should be at. In the US, there was a clear gap between blue and red states, where blue states that prolonged lockdowns had worse effects on children's scores. But the lockdowns became so politicized (on both sides) that you couldn't have a serious conversation about the downstream affects of the lockdown. And IMO, this is a problem that will hurt us for at least a generation, as the current generation of children are simply a step below. This has also led to widening inequality as those that are less fortunate and didn't have the same resources to learn from home, hire a tutor, etc. were further left behind with prolonged lockdowns.
Again, I think what the far right has been doing regarding science and health is nothing short of disgusting, but to say the left is unblemished here when IMO they've done real damage to our society is also unfair.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...ng-losses.html |
The pandemic is maybe one of the worst examples you can use. Highly politicized on both sides, a quickly evolving situation where much of what we know now had to be learned (aka science!) along the way. Pinning a whole generation of affected learners on the left is absurd.
You’d have been better off citing anti-vaxxers as originating in the vaguely left wing, natural health sphere.