From Andy Marlette in today’s Indianapolis Star. In all seriousness, the recent appointments by president-elect Trump have me looking on the bright side of what most people I know are simpky viewing as a national if not a global catastrophe. It has long been characteristic of Americans to question the authority and insight of experts, on any subject from smoking’s link to cancer, to greenhouse gas emissions’ link to global warming. Maybe it will be productive to have a whole government with that pseudoskeptical attitude running things, if it messes things up so badly that the majority of Americans come to value what people with expertise have to contribute?
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