In The Moment … September 8, 2020 Show 897 Hour 1
The scientific method is, by definition, nonpartisan, and unbiased. And yet in an America where political division threatens to be the rule, not the exception, politicized science can cloud how a nation responds to a pandemic. And that can erode trust and put lives at risk.
Dr. Wendell Hoffman is an infectious disease specialist and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine. He writes about the destructive bias of politicized science in South Dakota Medicine.
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