Missile defenses defeat ‘the science’ and ‘the experts’

If someone says, “Trust the science!” these days, it’s usually an effort to short-circuit debate over weighty policy issues.

“Trust the science” has been deployed in the past five years to prevent debate over COVID school closures and mask mandates, over electric-car subsidies, and over sex changes for boys and girls.

For my entire time in Washington, though, “trust the science” has been used to oppose a missile defense system for the United States. For my first 20 years as a journalist, I was told that a missile defense system simply cannot work and that anyone who disagreed was a fool. All the experts agreed, and science proved that you can’t “shoot down a bullet with a bullet.”

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