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The US used to lead the world in its innovation, including in energy and industry, and also in its medical advances. And that was because it invested in scientific knowledge, and turned that knowledge into useful services that were easily sold to the whole world. Now, the Trump administration is fixated on articles of faith, not actual scientific advance. It hates renewable energy, which the rest of the world sees as the technology of the future. It hates the mRNA vaccine technology that Trump originally championed during the Covid pandemic, but which has become mired in conspiracy theories. And it is now shaping public policy to match its superstitions and myths. It's hurting America - and may well be exported to some of the rest of us. Let's discuss.