boilermaker55
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A Donald Trump administration cannot simply wish away inconvenient facts such as ongoing climate change and must accept scientific conclusions, the head of a top scientific organization said Thursday.
In an unusually frank and plainly worded commentary, the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science said he was worried about federal funding for scientific research but also worried about the new political atmosphere after the November 8 election results.
"This election is said to have been about rejecting the political establishment. We cannot let that mean rejecting established facts," Rush Holt, a physicist and former Democratic representative for New Jersey, wrote in a commentary in his organization's flagship journal, Science.
"We hope that President Trump will be more grounded in specific facts than was candidate Trump and pay more attention to the process of careful, open vetting of hypotheses and claims," Holt added.
We all know the reaction to the "non'scientific" crowd and this is it.
Ignore facts.
In an unusually frank and plainly worded commentary, the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science said he was worried about federal funding for scientific research but also worried about the new political atmosphere after the November 8 election results.
"This election is said to have been about rejecting the political establishment. We cannot let that mean rejecting established facts," Rush Holt, a physicist and former Democratic representative for New Jersey, wrote in a commentary in his organization's flagship journal, Science.
"We hope that President Trump will be more grounded in specific facts than was candidate Trump and pay more attention to the process of careful, open vetting of hypotheses and claims," Holt added.
We all know the reaction to the "non'scientific" crowd and this is it.
Ignore facts.