“Today, facts seem to be questioned by many people who prefer to believe rumors rather than well-established scientific facts,” said Jean-Pierre Sauvage, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year.

Another laureate added, “it is a disaster when people start believing things that are false and, even worse, when governments induce them to believe facts that are evidently wrong and ignore all evidence-based, scientifically proven data.”

The Times Higher Education noted that “Agre is particularly worried by how Trump ‘flaunts his ignorance’ to appeal to a group of Americans who are happy to dismiss the opinions of scientists.”

It’s not the first time some of the world’s top scientists and doctors have publicly expressed disapproval of the president. Earlier this year, 62 Nobel Laureates signed a petition denouncing Trump’s executive order directing U.S. agencies to ban travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.

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