Political Quotes

“Mr. President, let's go back to the basics here. The basic fact is that the scientific truth of climate change threatens the business model of enormous industries that spew carbon dioxide, and it challenges the ideology of rightwing fanatics who spew hatred of government. That is what the background is to all of this, and there has been a scheme for years to protect the industry's business model and the ideology of its associated cohort of fanatics. That scheme from the industry and the rightwing fanatics has been to attack climate science. They have been at it for years. If you are a huge polluting industry or a rightwing fanatic, how do you go about attacking science? Well, you can't win a real attack on the science, precisely because the polluter nonsense could not make it through peer review. Peer review is the most basic test to enter scientific debate, but they fail at peer review because their argument is bogus, phony, and it is a front. So the scheme has always been to avoid peer review because it is a test they would fail. If you are going to fail the peer review test, what do you do? Instead of a direct attack through peer review journals, they attack science from the side. They create a phony parallel science, a simulacrum of science that doesn't have to face peer review. Their phony science doesn't even have to be true.…”