Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images/2020 The Washington Post Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet biologist who gained the favor of Joseph Stalin by promoting pseudoscientific theories that purported to apply Marxist-Leninist theory to biology. Lysenko’s insight was to dismiss the burgeoning field of genetics as a capitalist lie, and to posit a socialist alternative theory of biology that refused to accept that plants were bound by any such thing as “genes.
Public-health officials are far more skeptical. Evidence to date can be summarized as “limited and inconclusive.” Trump’s former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb wrote a Wall Street Journal column urging the rapid development of coronavirus treatments, citing several promising examples, but conspicuously omitting the president’s favorite example.
Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has repeatedly lobbied Trump to adopt hydroxychloroquine, which he has falsely described as “100 percent effective.” Giuliani told the Washington Post that he hasn’t discussed his views with Fauci, “I’m sure he thinks I am an ignoramus,” he concedes.
The Trump personality cult serves as a substitute for Marxist-Leninist dogma. The president can overpower the sniveling bureaucrats through sheer gusto. “I’m a smart guy. I feel good about it,” Trump has announced. “Let’s see what happens. We have nothing to lose.”
jonathanchait It is simpler. Trump’s combination of magical thinking and desperation to fix his reelection hopes is going to kill 100s of thousands. DoYourJob
jonathanchait Actually, it grows out of pushing science to do the very best it can as quickly as possible. And what's wrong with that?
jonathanchait trump is getting money from this company,,,campaign money or direct payment to one of the trumps.
jonathanchait Or is it simply a normal reaction of a petulant child unable to accept the reality of the events around him? ' Sorry Donald the balloon burst. I can't fix it.'
jonathanchait When people start dying because of this I hope they haul his ass to jail as accessory to murder.
jonathanchait I disagree it’s a widespread distraction with talking points accurately and widely shared among trump cohorts. Giuliani. Navarro. Etc
jonathanchait Stop making out tRUmp is making sane rational decisions such that he can have 'dissatisfaction w public-health authorities' realDonaldTrump is severely mentally-impaired (stroke, dementia, drug abuse?) & is incapable of thinking like a normal person Clean & Present Danger VP
jonathanchait And someone close to him, probably related to him, is profiting. It’s always about ego and money with that piece of shit.
jonathanchait Follow the money. The makers/owners of the non-COVID-19 drug has given him $1,000,000s.
jonathanchait Who knew it could take so long to find a cure....he likes to snap his fingers and have fools do whatever he wants.
jonathanchait Sailors, VOTE......... POTUS TrumpVirus IMPOTUS
jonathanchait Try this reason: most who get COVID-19 recover. If they took sugar pills they were told was HCQ, they’d believe Trump saved them.
usa_seattle jonathanchait Are you sure he doesn’t have money invested in the company making this drug?
jonathanchait Someone needs to investigate if trump has stock in the company that makes that drug....
jonathanchait Let him be the first to try it. What’s he got to lose
jonathanchait Poor Dr. Fauci
jonathanchait For realDonaldTrump , this is not about saving lives, it’s about saving votes, period.
jonathanchait Trump thinks hydroxycholoquine is this...no wonder he is advocating it.
jonathanchait Oh come on. There must be a financial motive.
jonathanchait The drug is widely being used in New York hospitals to treat COVID-19 patients. Do we need to know more to know that it is not a miracle cure?