--- description: TIME's Jeffrey Kluger takes on The Donald for crimes against science title: Ebola Outbreak: Science Cop Takes on Donald Trump image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt141f78473696a741/69869ec4e53aba4a1e4d3e95/trump-tout640.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Health](/section/health/) ## Health Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Infectious Disease](/tag/infectious-disease/) ## Infectious Disease Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch a Science Cop Take on Donald Trump by [Michael Lester](/author/michael-lester/) and [Jeffrey Kluger](/author/jeffrey-kluger/) Aug 7, 2014 9:22 PM CUT  Science Cop locks up Donald Trump for "science crimes". Science Cop locks up Donald Trump for "science crimes".TIME/VInce Rose by [Michael Lester](/author/michael-lester/) and [Jeffrey Kluger](/author/jeffrey-kluger/) Aug 7, 2014 9:22 PM CUT The Ebola outbreak that is causing such fear and suffering in Africa is a very real and very deadly thing. But the fact is that the nature of the Ebola virus is such that it stands a very low chance of ever causing a pandemic like AIDS or H1N1\. That hasn’t stopped America’s great foghorn—Donald Trump—and others like him from spreading all kinds of misinformation about the disease, warning people that patients should not be brought to the U.S. and that flights from West Africa should be stopped, otherwise we face an American epidemic. But Trump and his ilk are committing a science crime—the crime of misinformation. Here’s the truth, from TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3089751/ebola-outbreak-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3089751/ebola-outbreak-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Watch a Science Cop Take on Donald Trump","datePublished":"2014-08-07T21:22:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-30T11:34:29.843Z","description":"TIME's Jeffrey Kluger takes on The Donald for crimes against science","url":"https://time.com/3089751/ebola-outbreak-donald-trump/","keywords":["Infectious Disease","Disease","global health"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt141f78473696a741/69869ec4e53aba4a1e4d3e95/trump-tout640.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Michael Lester","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/michael-lester/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Jeffrey Kluger","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt141f78473696a741/69869ec4e53aba4a1e4d3e95/trump-tout640.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump","caption":"Donald Trump in jail","creditText":"TIME/VInce Rose","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/infectious-disease/","name":"Infectious Disease"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3089751/ebola-outbreak-donald-trump/","name":"Watch a Science Cop Take on Donald Trump"}}]}] ```