{"id":141955,"date":"2013-10-13T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=141955"},"modified":"2014-04-06T17:54:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:54:40","slug":"15-gop-quotes-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/political-ironing\/10\/13\/15-gop-quotes-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The 15 Most Terrifying GOP Quotes On Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the 2012 Republican presidential election primaries, silver-streaked pariah Jon Huntsman made a bold–and politically fatal–proclamation when he said that he trusted the scientific community’s consensus regarding climate change. “Call me crazy,” Huntsman mused. Sadly, in a sea of willful incompetence currently bleeding bright Republican red throughout the United States, Huntsman’s anomalous strand of reason might very well be viewed as “crazy”. But for the real crazy–the terrifying, spine-tingling crazy that has the potential to work its way into the congressional record and subsequent laws–look no further than these 15 petrifying GOP quotes on science:<\/p>\n

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In the 2012 Republican presidential election primaries, silver-streaked pariah Jon Huntsman made a bold–and politically fatal–proclamation when he said that he trusted the scientific community’s consensus regarding climate change. “Call me crazy,” Huntsman mused. Sadly, in a sea of willful incompetence currently bleeding bright Republican red throughout the United States, Huntsman’s anomalous strand of reason […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,262],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe 15 Most Terrifying GOP Quotes On Science<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No, Jon Huntsman isn't "crazy" for going with the scientific community's findings on climate change. 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