{"id":13000,"date":"2021-03-22T08:31:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13000"},"modified":"2021-03-22T08:51:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:51:54","slug":"follow-the-science-they-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/follow-the-science-they-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow the “Science,” They Say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Throughout the Trump years and in particular during the 2020 COVID pandemic crisis, the nation was lectured by the Left \u201cto follow the data,\u201d as the Democrats proclaimed themselves the \u201cparty of science.\u201d As sober and judicious children of the enlightenment, they alone offered the necessary disinterested correctives to Trump\u2019s supposed bluster and exaggeration\u2014and to his anti-scientific deplorable following (often dismissed by Biden as\u00a0dregs<\/a>,\u00a0chumps<\/a>, and\u00a0Neanderthals<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In truth, leftists and Democrats have become the purveyors of superstition. Their creation of a fantasy world is not because they do not believe in science per se<\/em>, but because they believe more in the primacy of ideology that should shape and warp science in the proper fashion for the greater good. What prompted Paul Ehrlich, Al Gore, or Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hysterically and wrongly to forecast widespread demographic or climatological catastrophe in just a few years was not ignorance of science per se<\/em>, but a desire to massage science<\/em> for our own good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Throughout the Trump years and in particular during the 2020 COVID pandemic crisis, the nation was lectured by the Left \u201cto follow the data,\u201d as the Democrats proclaimed themselves the \u201cparty of science.\u201d As sober and judicious children of the enlightenment, they alone offered the necessary disinterested correctives to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3nG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13024,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/follow-the-science-they-said\/","url_meta":{"origin":13000,"position":0},"title":"Follow The \u2018Science,\u2019 They Said","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 25, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Throughout the Trump years and in particular during the 2020 COVID pandemic crisis, the nation was lectured by the Left \u201cto follow the data,\u201d as the Democrats proclaimed themselves the \u201cparty of science.\u201d As sober and judicious children of the enlightenment, they alone offered\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13045,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-john-batchelor-show-beware-the-political-speakers-of-follow-the-science\/","url_meta":{"origin":13000,"position":1},"title":"The John Batchelor Show: Beware the political speakers of “follow the science.”","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-john-batchelor-show-beware-the-political-speakers-of-follow-the-science\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7842,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-truth-about-science-and-religion\/","url_meta":{"origin":13000,"position":2},"title":"The Truth About Science and Religion","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Scambray \/\/ American Thinker \u00a0 In 1925 the renowned philosopher and mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead speaking to scholars at Harvard said that science originated in Christian Europe in the 13th century.\u00a0 Whitehead pointed out that science arose from \u201cthe medieval insistence on the rationality of God, conceived as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Retrospective"","block_context":{"text":"Retrospective","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/opinion\/retrospective\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Photo via www.drroyspencer.com","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/God-and-scientist.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3152,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obstructed-view\/","url_meta":{"origin":13000,"position":3},"title":"Obstructed View","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"by Terry Scambray Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity Science\u2019s Blind Spot: The Unseen Religion of Scientific Naturalism\u00a0by Cornelius Hunter. 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