Pandemic brings Trump’s war on science to the boil – but who will win?
The appearance on her behalf face is going to be appreciated among the defining pictures of the coronavirus crisis. As Dr Deborah Birx, coordinator from the White-colored House reaction to the pandemic, sitting hearing Jesse Trump musing about disinfectant like a strategy to Covid-19, her eyes blinked, her mouth tightened, and she or he made an appearance to stay in discomfort.
Like a cellular immunologist, Birx’s anguish was very understandable. But she isn't merely a researcher, she's a diplomat, and also, since Trump made his contentious remarks a week ago she's declined to criticize his flight of fancy.
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Other leading scientists have felt less obliged to become circum...