Barack Obama: “We don't listen to science just when it fits our ideologies or when it…”

On the recordOctober 12, 2016

We don't listen to science just when it fits our ideologies or when it produces the results that we want.

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Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at the White House Frontiers Conference at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh

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