--- title: Ebola Outbreak: Science Cop Takes on Donald Trump description: TIME's Jeffrey Kluger takes on The Donald for crimes against science canonical: https://time.com/3089751/ebola-outbreak-donald-trump/ author: Michael Lester article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-07T21:22:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-30T11:34:29.843Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola Outbreak: Science Cop Takes on Donald Trump og:description: TIME's Jeffrey Kluger takes on The Donald for crimes against science og:url: https://time.com/3089751/ebola-outbreak-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt141f78473696a741/69869ec4e53aba4a1e4d3e95/trump-tout640.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola Outbreak: Science Cop Takes on Donald Trump twitter:description: TIME's Jeffrey Kluger takes on The Donald for crimes against science twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt141f78473696a741/69869ec4e53aba4a1e4d3e95/trump-tout640.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a Science Cop Take on Donald Trump by [Michael Lester](https://time.com/author/michael-lester/) and [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/) Aug 7, 2014 9:22 PM UTC  Science Cop locks up Donald Trump for "science crimes". Science Cop locks up Donald Trump for "science crimes".TIME/VInce Rose by [Michael Lester](https://time.com/author/michael-lester/) and [Jeffrey Kluger](https://time.com/author/jeffrey-kluger/) Aug 7, 2014 9:22 PM UTC 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"}}]}] ```