Elections have consequences, and to make sure all voters understand what hangs in the balance November 3, we at CFI have compiled this handy reminder. Our timeline recaps four years of executive orders and federal agency policies that have attacked science and eroded the wall of separation between church and state.
The Trump Administration’s Assault on Science and Secularism
Fight Back
It’s not just you. We all see it, every day, as the major challenges of our time are made infinitely more difficult because so many people believe in things that simply aren’t true. We can’t deal with climate change because people are told it’s a hoax. We can’t get a handle on infectious diseases because people have been told to be afraid of vaccines. We can’t give women control over their own bodies, teach our children about the facts of evolution, or give everyone equal treatment under the law, because so many people believe their holy book forbids it.
To tackle the world’s greatest challenges, we have to be working with the same set of facts, to live in the same reality. Someone has to take on the misinformation, conspiracy theories, and magical thinking that makes everything worse. Someone has to stand up and be champion for reason, science, critical thinking, and basic compassion.
That someone is you. And you are not alone. This is the fight of our time, and we are ready for it. For more than forty years, the Center for Inquiry has been taking on the false and dangerous claims of conspiracy theorists, snake oil profiteers, and religious extremists.
And we do all of it with the talent, creativity, and support of the tens of thousands of people who, just like you, have had it with the noise, with the lies, with the bullshit.
This timeline is intended to point out some areas of key concern, but it is not an exhaustive list of every action taken by the administration. We wish to acknowledge that the federal government is still the nation’s leading source of science funding.