... [S. 729] PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO CHALLENGE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Congressional Record ^ | March 7, 2019 | Sen. Schumer, et al

[eclectic]

Absolutely, no federally funded activity related to climate change whatsoever! We do not want to disturb the scientific consensus!

[Seruzawa]

It won’t work. This is an act of desperation.

[MtnClimber]

Prohibiting the exposure of a hoax.

[freeandfreezing]

No real, significant science is ever "settled". If it was then there would be no need for any further research. Historically the scientific consensus has always been shown to be wrong as researchers learn more about any particular field.

This has to be one of the most foolish bills ever introduced.

[adorno]

It’s called, FEAR.

Fear that the global-warming/climate-change ‘science’ will be exposed as a complete fraud.

It’s the same kind of FEAR that the DNC is displaying by forbidding FOX from hosting any of their party’s debates. FEAR of being exposed as frauds and fear merchants.

[Bob434]

exactly- and that could be a very powerful republican argument in next election ‘Democrats are so fearful that people will find out the truth about CO2 and climate change that they are attempting to ban any research that is contrary to the agenda”

[Bob434]

finished too soon

“And they are so afraid that they are willing to violate your first amendment right in order to ban you from finding out”

[NTHockey]

Another bill introduced that nobody has read, will ever read or wants to read. All it would take is for one person with a live brain cell to wake up long enough to object and the whole bill has to be read.

But no, they’re too busy surfing the internet for porn to even bother. And we’re supposed to accept them as authorities. Balderdash!

[Dogbert41]

" 8And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. " - Revelation 16:8-9

Not even Chucky can stop it!

[Da Coyote]

Gonna be interesting to see how the science illiterate dimbulbcrats will ban the equations and data which consistently show that liberal science is right up there with phrenology.

[MRadtke]

Science is not done by consensus. Ever.
If it’s real science, then it must be put to the test. Or else it isn’t science.

[scrabblehack]

It looks like the way the bill is written that this is the only opinion allowed on climate change:

https://science2017.globalchange.gov/

The good news is that the report is to be rewritten not less frequently than every 4 years.

[Sgt_Schultze]

In 1983, Drs. Marshall and Warren challenged the settled science of medicine regarding peptic ulcers. Scientists had agreed the cause of these ulcers leading to stomach cancer was stress driven. Marshall and Warren disagreed and said a bacteria was responsible, and the ulcers could be easily cured with proper medicine. The science deniers, Marshall and Warren, were very literally ostracized from real scientistville.

Then Dr Marshall decided to experiment on himself by drinking the suspect bacteria, whereupon he became infected. After being diagnosed with a familiar gastritis, a precursor to an ulcer, he began a regimen of antibiotics and the affliction subsided. Unconvinced, the settled scientists resisted..

Until in 2005, when Marshall and Warren accepted the Nobel Prize in medicine.

[justa-hairyape]

It is not by definition a scientific consensus if it cannot be challenged. These people live in hellish universe of their own making.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

I saw the title and thought this post must be satire. I clicked on the link and saw the source, but I still am having trouble believing something like this could be proposed by a U.S. Senate minority leader.

[Seaplaner]

Rigorous skepticism is a key component of the scientific method.

Burning books before they might be written? That is your (ironically named) Democratic Party.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yeah, we’ll fix the game every four years under the influence of having fixed it the previous four years....

[HiTech RedNeck]

It would be doctrinal — something fitting to a religion or a faith, but not a science.

[oldbill]

Sounds like Galileo revisited.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Church of Scientology (so to speak)?