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Scientific American on Trump
by Idéfix Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:20 am
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/donald-trump-s-lack-of-respect-for-science-is-alarming/
Donald Trump’s Lack of Respect for Science Is Alarming
The U.S. presidential election shows how far the political conversation has degenerated from the nation's founding principles of truth and evidence
Scientific American is not in the business of endorsing political candidates. But we do take a stand for science—the most reliable path to objective knowledge the world has seen—and the Enlightenment values that gave rise to it.
The current presidential race, however, is something special. It takes antiscience to previously unexplored terrain. When the major Republican candidate for president has tweeted that global warming is a Chinese plot, threatens to dismantle a climate agreement 20 years in the making and to eliminate an agency that enforces clean air and water regulations, and speaks passionately about a link between vaccines and autism that was utterly discredited years ago, we can only hope that there is nowhere to go but up.
Donald Trump’s Lack of Respect for Science Is Alarming
The U.S. presidential election shows how far the political conversation has degenerated from the nation's founding principles of truth and evidence
Scientific American is not in the business of endorsing political candidates. But we do take a stand for science—the most reliable path to objective knowledge the world has seen—and the Enlightenment values that gave rise to it.
The current presidential race, however, is something special. It takes antiscience to previously unexplored terrain. When the major Republican candidate for president has tweeted that global warming is a Chinese plot, threatens to dismantle a climate agreement 20 years in the making and to eliminate an agency that enforces clean air and water regulations, and speaks passionately about a link between vaccines and autism that was utterly discredited years ago, we can only hope that there is nowhere to go but up.
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Re: Scientific American on Trump
by Vakavaka Pakapaka Wed Aug 17, 2016 11:02 am
Fischman
Gorman
Greenemier
Mirski
Moskowitch
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Did Trump say anything against Israel?
Gorman
Greenemier
Mirski
Moskowitch
………
Did Trump say anything against Israel?
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Re: Scientific American on Trump
by Idéfix Tue Aug 23, 2016 3:37 pm
Two former heads of the EPA, Republican appointees of St. Reagan (PBUH) and Bush 41, have endorsed Clinton citing Trump's ignorance of science.
https://cleantechnica.com/2016/08/18/gop-epa-chiefs-endorse-clinton-trumps-profound-ignorance-science/
"We Republicans should be shocked, outraged even, at the prospect that all this progress, this legacy will be repudiated and rolled back by Donald Trump. That Trump would call climate change a hoax — the singular health and environmental threat to the world today — flies in the face of overwhelming international science and the public conviction and commitment of almost 200 national governments that adopted the Paris Agreement on climate change in December 2015."
“Our leadership was essential to that agreement,” the two Republican EPA chiefs point out. “To back away now, as Trump wants to do, would set the world back decades — years we could never recover. The young people in this country deserve far better than that as our legacy.”
https://cleantechnica.com/2016/08/18/gop-epa-chiefs-endorse-clinton-trumps-profound-ignorance-science/
"We Republicans should be shocked, outraged even, at the prospect that all this progress, this legacy will be repudiated and rolled back by Donald Trump. That Trump would call climate change a hoax — the singular health and environmental threat to the world today — flies in the face of overwhelming international science and the public conviction and commitment of almost 200 national governments that adopted the Paris Agreement on climate change in December 2015."
“Our leadership was essential to that agreement,” the two Republican EPA chiefs point out. “To back away now, as Trump wants to do, would set the world back decades — years we could never recover. The young people in this country deserve far better than that as our legacy.”
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Re: Scientific American on Trump
by MaxEntropy_Man Tue Aug 23, 2016 5:23 pm
Ignorance of science is not an exclusively Drumpfian trait. That's the price for membership in the GOP.
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