Dan Rather trips all over himself rolling out science lecture denouncing ‘dangerous’ Trump bias and his accusations of ‘fake news’

1/8 What a disgrace. We are in a crisis and one thing that is sorely missing from the Trump Administration is an understanding of… Science.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) February 27, 2020

2/8 We need science. And we need leaders that believe in it. If we are going to confront our challenges, from the immediate, like coronavirus, to the existential, like climate change, we need science.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) February 27, 2020

3/8 Science isn't something you can just turn on, like a faucet. It's an ethos, a way of thinking. It's not just knowledge, but how we as a species accrue insight.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) February 27, 2020

4/8 It's not just about applications, it's about the basic understanding of life and our universe that allows us to find answers where we once didn't know even to ask the question.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) February 27, 2020

5/8 Science is not perfect, and those who perform it are, like the rest of us, human. We should strive to make science more inclusive, less driven by profit-making decisions, and more expansive.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) February 27, 2020

6/8 What it boils down to is a way of viewing our surroundings. Do we succumb to superstition and bias? Or do we question our assumptions, and ourselves?

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) February 27, 2020

Slamming “bias” and those who accuse the media of pushing “fake news”? Does he really want to go here? Guess so:

7/8 Listening to the administration, and seeing their actions, we find men and women who are hostile to the very ideals that make progress possible. We see expertise denigrated and uncomfortable observations dismissed as "fake news."

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) February 27, 2020

8/8 This is gravely dangerous, to our health and our planet. And yet, science perseveres. I believe it will thrive in one way or another. But if America is to remain a leader in science, and all that it provides, it desperately needs different leadership.

— Dan Rather (@DanRather) February 27, 2020

But nobody should ever have questioned his objectivity cred.

Climate cultist Dan, who has succumbed to superstition and bias regarding climate change, suggests that we should "question our assumptions" and not succumb to superstition and bias. https://t.co/mo0WZTPwia

— Tom Nelson (@tan123) February 27, 2020

Isn’t it ironic?

For example, science proved that you got snookered by a fake memo and it ended your career. https://t.co/crHwfFQArE

— It's still 2016 apparently (@jtLOL) February 27, 2020

Another nominee for induction into the “You Should Sit This One Out” Hall of Fame from the Godfather of Fake News.