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February 16, 2017

Trump Science Adviser Candidate Calls Climate Science a "Cult"
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The frontrunner to become science adviser to President Trump called
climate scientists a "glassy-eyed cult" and falsely accused the National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration of manipulating climate
data. Princeton University physicist William Happer made the remarks in
an interview published Wednesday by The Guardian, saying, "There's a
whole area of climate so-called science that is really more like a cult.
It's like Hare Krishna or something like that. They're glassy-eyed and
they chant." Happer also supports prohibiting federally funded
scientists from communicating their findings to the public.


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