We know that politicians actually started saying "I'm not a scientist" well before 2014 -- Marco Rubio adopted it in 2012 when asked how old the earth was -- but this was definitely the year it became Republicans' go-to strategy for avoiding journalists' questions about global warming and/or evolution. On matters of climate, it's a fine supplement to the previous favorite dodge, "I believe the climate is always changing." And what a fine year of not-science the Right has given us!
Who knew we had so many Ned Flanders fans in Congress?
"Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends! Well, I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!"
Unfortunately, the House Science Committee cannot offer an opinion on Dr. May-Britt Moser's discovery of grid cells,due to the fact that the House Science Committee was born without any, and therefore is still stuck in the broom closet.
Prefacing things by saying "I'm not a scientist" is so often the exact opposite of starting of with "I'm not a racist, but...", in that your next words convincingly prove your initial thesis.
The evolution thing: <i>... Never mind that the reality of evolution is not really up for debate; ... </i> There was a big debate on this <strong>in the Nineteenth Century</strong>. Why these guys think the existence of evolution it is an object of continued lively academic debate and that they are participating in said debate is beyond me. Maybe they should review the current proof of Fermat&#039;s Last Theorem and comment on that too. (I mean, really, <i>for all</i> N gt 2? ALL? )
I hear some of them <a href="https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=yrS7f3pfpKo" target="_blank">actually stick their faces in the exhaust</a>, so there&#039;s that.
Who knew we had so many Ned Flanders fans in Congress?
&quot;Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends! Well, I say there are some things we don&#039;t want to know! Important things!&quot;
Gorgeous dress. Do they hold the awards ceremony on Pier 7 at Stockholm Harbor?
Unfortunately, the House Science Committee cannot offer an opinion on Dr. May-Britt Moser&#039;s discovery of grid cells,due to the fact that the House Science Committee was born without any, and therefore is still stuck in the broom closet.
Prefacing things by saying &quot;I&#039;m not a scientist&quot; is so often the exact opposite of starting of with &quot;I&#039;m not a racist, but...&quot;, in that your next words convincingly prove your initial thesis.
God is powerless to disobey the laws of physics and probability.
Hurrah for Dr Moser (and Dr Mr Moser, who had a less awesome dress but shared the Nobel.)
And the lead paint manufacturers.
The evolution thing: <i>... Never mind that the reality of evolution is not really up for debate; ... </i> There was a big debate on this <strong>in the Nineteenth Century</strong>. Why these guys think the existence of evolution it is an object of continued lively academic debate and that they are participating in said debate is beyond me. Maybe they should review the current proof of Fermat&#039;s Last Theorem and comment on that too. (I mean, really, <i>for all</i> N gt 2? ALL? )
The only problem is, when they&#039;re all over government and industry, the bad things happen to us, too.
I hear some of them <a href="https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=yrS7f3pfpKo" target="_blank">actually stick their faces in the exhaust</a>, so there&#039;s that.
Motorcycle libel!