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Chris Mooney
(20 Sep 1977 - )
American science journalist and novelist who hosts the Climate Desk website, podcaster, author of four books (including The Republican War on Science) and is a correspondent for Mother Jones Magazine among a wide variety of others.
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Science Quotes by Chris Mooney (2 quotes)
Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics.
— Chris Mooney
In article, 'Dear Donald Trump: Winter Does Not Disprove Global Warming', on the Mother Jones website (2 Jan 2014).
This [Republican] political movement has patently demonstrated that it will not defend the integrity of science in any case in which science runs afoul of its core political constituencies. In so doing, it has ceded any right to govern a technologically advanced and sophisticated nation.
— Chris Mooney
In 'Epilogue', The Republican War on Science (2005), 255.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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