Long before COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other “experts” who “represent science,” and their senseless and baseless federal mandates and other authoritarian decrees, there was the Endangered Species Act. My home state of Wyoming, long after President Biden’s “patience [with non-vaxxers had] “w[orn] thin,” enjoyed the nation’s lowest “full vaccination rate” because we had been inoculated to junk science peddled by the federal government. After all, we lived through decades of “scientists” trying to control how we work and live because of the grizzly bear, the greater sage-grouse, and the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse.
Little wonder we greeted with enthusiasm President Trump’s plans, announced last month, to redefine the term “harm” as used in the ESA and last week’s executive order to require “Gold Standard Science in the conduct and management of [agencies’] scientific activities.” Trump’s order singled out the ESA as having failed to meet that standard and thereby lost the public’s trust — along with federal decision-making regarding COVID-19 and so-called climate change.
