{"id":26454,"date":"2011-11-13T15:50:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T20:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=26454"},"modified":"2011-11-13T15:50:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T20:50:36","slug":"republican-mayor-bloomberg-republican-presidential-candidates-so-anti-science-mind-boggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/republican-mayor-bloomberg-republican-presidential-candidates-so-anti-science-mind-boggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg: GOP Presidential Candidates So Anti-Science It's "Mind-Boggling""},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a><\/p>\n OK, this is not breaking news, but it’s worth a play any time, because, sadly, the anti-science Republicans running in the presidential primaries don’t seem to have any interest in learning the science.<\/p>\n Former Republican and current Mayor of New York City, Mayor Bloomberg, said this month that trusting science should be a given at that level of politics. He said so at an international economic forum at Columbia University. In particular, he was focusing on the GOP candidate’s denial of human-caused global warming and climate change, as well as evolution.<\/p>\n “We have presidential candidates who don’t believe in science,” Bloomberg said<\/a>.\u00a0“I mean, just think about it, can you imagine a company of any size in the world where the CEO said ‘oh I don’t believe in science’ and that person surviving to the end of that day? Are you kidding me? It’s mind-boggling!”<\/p>\n Bloomberg wouldn’t name any politician, in particular (well, it’s almost the whole batch of Republicans running for president and several in Congress).<\/p>\n “I don’t know,” he said. “You can check the presidential candidates’ speeches\u2026 I don’t have time to go do it but all their speeches, everything they said.”<\/p>\n