Political Quotes

“It is actually quite a good example, because we have some of the phony science that has attacked the science of climate change, which is actually a pretty good comparison to what the Senator described. Take, for instance, the bogus Marshall Institute, which was founded in 1984 by a physicist who had been the chief scientist behind the tobacco industry's campaign to convince Americans that tobacco is actually OK for you, and that there was doubt about whether it would actually do you any harm. A few years later, he organized something called the Oregon Petition, which denied that climate change was happening. They phonied up the Oregon Petition to look like official papers of the National Academy of Sciences. So the National Academy of Sciences had to take the unusual step of responding that the petition ``does not reflect the conclusion of expert reports of the academy,'' and further, that it was ``a deliberate attempt to mislead.'' So he is an ``expert'' saying that tobacco is OK for you. Suddenly, he turns up as a climate denier, and he phonies up his report to look like----”