Love of science, not Trump's ignorance, will make America great again
by Ted Widmer from Science | The Guardian on (#55BVB)
Amid a pandemic, the president rails against reason itself. The passions of his predecessors throw his failure into sharp relief
We know what the temperature was in Philadelphia on 4 July 1776, because Thomas Jefferson wrote it down at 6am (68F), 9am (72.25F), 1pm (76F), and 9pm (73.5F). Even on this most important day, the author of the Declaration of Independence was never too busy to observe nature. Scientific language helped as he scratched out the words, claiming it was self-evident" that people had rights, based on the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God".
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