The article discusses Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s visit to Fox & Friends, highlighting the growing climate change denial movement. It also traces the historical relationship between science and society in America, from the early emphasis on scientific progress to the emergence of skepticism and resistance to scientific findings.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visits 'Fox & Friends' at Fox News Channel Studios on July 14, 2023, in New York City. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)denial of climate sciencesince the pandemic. As the second Trump administration takes power this month, the emerging zeitgeist threatens to derail progress on climate change and other critical policy areas. It could also foster a shift toward autocracy.
Episodes of hostile skepticism throughout American history have punctuated public esteem for science, but science was ascendant in the era of the nation’s birth. Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke and David Hume, pioneers of empiricism and rational inquiry, strongly influenced America’s founders. To'promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,” the U.S. Constitution mandated the establishment of the Patent Office. The first head of the patent office, Thomas Jefferson, was a polymath who conducted experiments with hybrid crops and farming techniques. Defense attorney Clarence Darrow leans against a table during the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial in which biology teacher John T. Scopes was prosecuted for teaching evolution to his class. Scopes is seated to Darrow's right with his arms folded. (Getty Images) In the 19th century, advances in agriculture, transportation and communications boosted Americans’ faith in science. The development of railroads enabled westward expansion, and the telegraph connected distant cities for the first time. Thomas Edison’s electric light bulb illuminated homes and cities, and Charles Goodyear’sAs science’s influence grew, it inevitably encroached on deeply held beliefs. When Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution arrived here just before the Civil War, its challenge to accepted beliefs about human creation was met with outrage. Protestant evangelicals called it “Opposition to Darwinism stemmed in part from religious objections, but American individualism and skepticism of authority fueled the controvers
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