Posted on 09/14/2016 7:08:06 PM PDT by Innovative
The 2016 U.S. presidential candidates recently answered a slew of questions about science-related issues, offering a glimpse of their stances on everything from vaccinations to climate change to the country's growing opioid problem.
Clinton said the science of climate change is "crystal clear" and the issue is "an urgent threat and a defining challenge of our For Trump, the issue of climate change was referred to in quotation marks. He said, "There is still much that needs to be investigated in the field." While the candidate noted the need for new energy sources to alleviate America's dependence on fossil fuels, he did not directly respond to how he would tackle the issue of climate change if elected. Instead, Trump offered alternative uses for the country's limited financial resources, such as increasing food production or fighting malaria. to address the issue, which focused on making America "the clean-energy superpower of the 21st century."
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Trump's approach sounds like the more rational one.
A haiku:
She’s a pharm expert:
Epipens, vodka
Bill brings the cocaine
...and the girls.
.....and the girls...
A dictionary definition of a symbiotic family relationship.
epipens, vodka, and girls
I went to the site and read the actual responses. Trump’s make me more enthusiastic about voting for him. I am pulling the lever for him in November; he is doing more lately to make me feel better about this decision.
12. Food
Agriculture involves a complex balance of land and energy use, worker health and safety, water use and quality, and access to healthy and affordable food, all of which have inputs of objective knowledge from science. How would you manage the US agricultural enterprise to our highest benefit in the most sustainable way?
Donald J Trump: The implication of your question is that there should be central control of American agriculture by the federal government. That is totally inappropriate. The agriculture industry should be free to seek its best solutions through the market system. That said, the production of food is a national security issue and should receive the attention of the federal government when it comes to providing security for our farmers and ranchers against losses to nature.
George Orwell’s “ministry of truth” has nearly complete control already.
Any intellectually honest person who understands the Scientific Method realizes that opinion (consensus) doesn’t play a role in scientific efforts. Instead, real scientific endeavors pursue elimination of bias as a top priority.
If there’s an agenda other than the truth, then it’s not science.
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