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U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer ScienceDebate 2016 Questions

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday September 14 2016, @01:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the interesting-but-not-surprising dept.

slash2phar writes:

Three of the four major candidates for United States president have responded to America's Top 20 Presidential Science, Engineering, Technology, Health and Environmental Questions. The nonprofit advocacy group ScienceDebate.org has posted their responses online. Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Jill Stein had all responded as of press time, and the group was awaiting responses from Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday September 14 2016, @05:40PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday September 14 2016, @05:40PM (#401924) Journal
    In other words, Trump says there is no climate change problem

    More like he says its a very low priority problem compared to our other issues with mother natire.

    I guess all those direct quotes from the man claiming it's fake are all just jokes. Additionally, putting scare-quotes around "climate change" in his response to the question also must just be a joke.

    We'll just let VLM tell us his actual, totally-real, stance and just ignore all the words coming out of Trump's mouth.
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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday September 14 2016, @05:56PM

    by VLM (445) on Wednesday September 14 2016, @05:56PM (#401933)

    Well thats kinda cheaty referencing stuff outside the response and historical.

    As a practical matter do beliefs about something unimportant, of low priority compared to more pressing problems, really matter?

    Say he flipflops on his position WRT the Investiture Controversy of 1102. Should that matter? Its really important to folks in the field and people who are into certain identify politics use it as a litmus test of who gets to belong and who doesn't. But being irrelevant and of low priority does it really matter?

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday September 14 2016, @06:17PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday September 14 2016, @06:17PM (#401947) Journal

      Yes, ignoring very basic and easily provable science is a very large problem for someone who is supposed to be making important decisions.