A handful of scientists are using a super PAC to get their colleagues
to align against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump over his
“embrace of conspiracy theories, anti-science attitudes, and disregard
for experts.” “We urge our peers to join us in making it clear that Mr. Trump’s
statements are not only at odds with scientific reality, but represent a
dangerous rejection of scientific thinking,”
reads an online petition started by anthropologist Eugenie Scott on the website of Not Who We Are PAC. Scott, who made her name fighting against teaching creationism in
schools, joined up with Penn State University climate scientist Michael
Mann and three others to attack Trump for his beliefs on issues, like
global warming, vaccines and evolution. The Trump campaign was quick to rebuff arguments Trump thought global warming was a hoax in the hours after the debate.
Pence told CNN
“the reality is that this climate change agenda that Barack Obama and
Hillary Clinton want to continue to expand is killing jobs in this
country.” This isn’t the first group of scientists to come out against Trump.
Some 37 scientists affiliated with the National Academy of Sciences
signed an open letter decrying Trump’s intention to pull out of a United Nations global warming treaty...
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