{"id":51464,"date":"2022-12-29T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/twitter-users-applaud-fume-as-musk-declares-twitter-will-follow-the-science-promote-questioning-51464"},"modified":"2022-12-29T05:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T10:00:18","slug":"twitter-users-applaud-fume-as-musk-declares-twitter-will-follow-the-science-promote-questioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/twitter-users-applaud-fume-as-musk-declares-twitter-will-follow-the-science-promote-questioning-51464","title":{"rendered":"Twitter users applaud, fume as Musk declares Twitter will &#8216;follow the science,&#8217; promote &#8216;questioning&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Current Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/elon-musk-election-interference-social-media-companies-wrong-undermines-democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CEO Elon Musk<\/a> declared that Twitter will promote &#8220;reasoned&#8221; skepticism of scientific data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science,&#8221; Musk wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Many Twitter users rallied and suggested that the policy promoted actual pursuit of scientific truth.<\/p>\n<p>Evolutionary Behavioral Scientist Gad Saad appeared to sarcastically joke about the dogmatic way scientific experts were treated amid the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/deposed-anthony-fauci-seven-hours-heres-learned-about-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>I DEPOSED DR. FAUCI FOR SEVEN HOURS. HERE&#8217;S WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT \u2018SCIENCE\u2019<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The science is anything that His Eminence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/anthony-fauci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lord Fauci<\/a> says it is,&#8221; Saad quipped. &#8220;His Excellency is science.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded by observing, &#8220;Anyone who says that questioning them is questioning science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton tweeted, &#8220;Bad news for transgender extremism, covid totalitarians,\u00a0and climate alarmists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Journalist David Martosko called upon followers to recognize Musk&#8217;s announcement has massive implications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t it remarkable that this is a departure from what we&#8217;ve seen for many years?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;I hope it also means it will be acceptable to examine who&#8217;s funding science and what kind of restrictions that places is on scientists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mathematical physicist, economist, and the managing director of Thiel Capital, Eric Weinstein expressed hope that the change could be a major shift across a variety of subjects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This. Changes. Everything. If true,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Is that a 1000% commitment to biologists that they can stop *lying* about biological sex, healthy reproductive development, \u2018herd immunity\u2019, genetic differences between geographically separated populations, horse paste, Wuhan Inst. GoF, etc.?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/rand-paul-vows-gop-fauci-covid-origins-lying-beginning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RAND PAUL VOWS GOP \u2018NOT DONE\u2019 WITH FAUCI ON COVID ORIGINS: \u2018HE\u2019S BEEN LYING FROM THE BEGINNING&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NASA Earth Cartography &amp; data visualization lead Joshua Stevens tweeted, &#8220;This is fair and reasonable. And if any scientist tells you otherwise, never let them wax poetic about curiosity and wonder ever again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some Twitter users appeared to condemn Musk\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p>New York Times contributor Wajahat Ali tweeted that Musk\u2019s post was, &#8220;Something a really dumb person would tweet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Ashton Pittman tweeted, &#8220;By \u2018reasoned questioning,\u2019 Elon Musk means batsh*t clown car conspiracy theorist drivel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elon\u2019s post appeared to be a veiled criticism of dogmatism amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/three-covid-19-questions-dr-fauci-answer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19 pandemic, <\/a>especially toward National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) head Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>That same day, Musk announced that the Twitter platform&#8217;s staff previously&#8221;had an internal Slack channel unironically called \u2018Fauci Fan Club.\u2019&#8221; This comes amid an ongoing series of &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; showing the public the inner workings of Twitter before Musk acquired the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Musk also tweeted a statement that put Fauci&#8217;s institutional accountability in question.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Almost no one seems to realize that the head of bioethics at NIH \u2013 the person who is supposed to make sure that Fauci behaves ethically \u2013 is his wife,&#8221; Musk wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in December, Musk appeared to joke, &#8220;My pronouns are Prosecute\/Fauci.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/twitter-users-applaud-fume-musk-declares-twitter-follow-science-allow-questioning\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/twitter-users-applaud-fume-musk-declares-twitter-follow-science-allow-questioning <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current Twitter CEO Elon Musk declared that Twitter will promote &#8220;reasoned&#8221; skepticism of scientific data. &#8220;New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-51464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Twitter users applaud, fume as Musk declares Twitter will &#039;follow the science,&#039; 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