Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN:
“The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata, and antimedicine agenda,” according to a piece last year by Boston University researchers in JAMA.2025 February 21, Stephanie Armour, “Trump’s team is using Project 2025 as a blueprint to make changes to federal health programs”, in CNN:
antiscience
noun
Etymology From anti- + science.
1
The abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.
Genealogies are antisciences. Of course, genealogy is not an unproblematic enterprise, since it is a struggle against forms of power that are associated with certain forms of (scientific) knowledge.2007, Martin Griffiths, International relations theory for the twenty-first century, page 95: