The Supreme Court's conservative majority rejects science, history and reality itself. Editorial from Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-supreme-courts-contempt-for-facts-is-a-betrayal-of-justice/
@jstatepost articles like these misunderstand the Court's job in the US government.
The Court isn't supposed to be ruling on matters of science, but rather on matters of law.
The Court emphatically does not have the expertise to judge matters of science, and it is aware of that, which is why it avoids wading into those waters, leaving those decisions up to others who actually do have the expertise.
And the example from the article serves to illustrate why that's so important.
The questions before the Court are matters of what the laws say, not what science says. Presumably Congress will have waded through the science and come to the best laws based on that. The Court, then, is to promote those laws under the assumption that they've followed the science.
So it's not that the Court rejects science. Rather, if anything it attempts to bolster science by assuming that the laws it promotes themselves represent the science.
To do otherwise, THAT would be the rejection of science.
@laurahelmuth
@jstatepost again, that's the opposite of what the SCOTUS did. It takes itself out of interpreting science because that's a job for the other branches of government.
