Sweet Science

A mathematician, a microbiologist and a chemical engineer walk into an election. And all of them walked out as members of Congress. Maybe, just maybe, stupidity (both obviously faux and very real) is out of vogue in DC. These Newly Elected Lawmakers Know Something Trump Doesn’t: Science. It’s gonna be a long road back, folks. “Thousands of experts have left agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services, now led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic whose Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement has been accused of peddling junk science.” Plus, A ‘STEM wave’: Democratic doctors, scientists win record number of seats in midterms.

+ We better hurry. Stupid is as stupid does. US Measles Cases Top 5,000 for the First Time Since the 1990s.