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luzribeiro in talk_politics

Chartsmanship goes interplanetary

Mar 15, 2015 20:07

Behold! An asshole who happens to be appointed at a position directly affecting science-related policy, attempts to deal with an actual scientist, and finds out his little chartsmanship is cute, but severely lacking in basic knowledge of NASA.

Seems like the Chairman of the Senate Space and Science and 2013 Person of the Year Ted Cruz doesn't ( Read more... )

science, gop, space, budget

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ddstory March 15 2015, 18:16:06 UTC

And the American Geophysical Union, which is made up of more than 60,000 Earth and space scientists, has responded to Cruz by sending an open letter.

http://sciencepolicy.agu.org/files/2013/07/AGU-letter-to-Sen-Cruz-March-2015.pdf

Earth hath no fury like a scientist scorned...

luvdovz March 15 2015, 19:47:07 UTC

Gee, and this guy is being viewed as a legitimate presidential hopeful.

Speechless.

This was bad, but Jeff Sessions was much worse. telemann March 15 2015, 22:41:42 UTC

Imma just say, while Cruz is pretty bad here, it's pretty tame compared to what was a much, much worse Senate hearing last week.

Be warned though: Gird your loins for pure stupidity, and a very aggressive global denier: I give you Jeff Sessions (Alabama - R) and an EPA official.
This is also one heckuva example of the gish-gallop technique.
Despite Senator Sessions trying to suggest he wasn't challenging human based climate change, we know better.
Video at the link if you click on the image below.

The GOP’s climate change skepticism, in one groan-worthy video.

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RE: This was bad, but Jeff Sessions was much worse. htpcl March 16 2015, 07:29:26 UTC

The level of willful ignorance is stunning.

underlankers March 16 2015, 01:43:42 UTC

Not surprised this yokel doesn't get that monitoring conditions on Earth to ensure successful entrance into space is rather decidedly important to the whole business. Then again, this is a guy whose family is Cuban and Canadian who screeches about illegal immigrants and who proclaims a US citizen isn't patriotic enough when he's yet to ditch his own Canadian citizenship. The only thing he's good for here is LULZ.

abomvubuso March 16 2015, 11:07:43 UTC

If we've learned anything from the recent measles outbreak and ensuing vaccination controversy, it's that for a large number of people no amount of rigorous scientific research is enough to prove the safety of important scientific advances. This growing anti-science fringe is fighting hard to convince the public to ignore piles of peer-reviewed studies and statistics in favour of personal stories and pseudoscience, in most cases some political agenda lurking behind it all ( ... )