[ExI] China will soon spend more money on scientific research, than the United States!

[John Clark]

On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 4:58 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:



> >>the best way to remove the Republican party from office is NOT to vote
> for some idiotic third party candidate who doesn't have a snowball's chance
> in hell of winning even one electoral vote.
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> > *…Unless you live in a free state,*
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And how do you know if you're living in a "free state" or not? By reading
the polls. I remind you that in 2016 on the day before election day and for
months before that every poll predicted Hillary Clinton would win, they
only differed on how large her victory would be. I don't think it's wise to
bet the future of the country on polls.


> > *voting third party makes perfect sense:*
>

Millions of people thought that in 2016 and see where it's got us. Just a
few minutes ago the New York Times broke the story that Trump's Secretary
of Commerce Wilbur Ross called the head of NOAA and threatened to fire the
scientists at the Birmingham Alabama weather bureau for contradicting the
president just 20 minutes afer Trump said a  category 5 hurricane would hit
Alabama (he later claimed the probability was 95%), the meteorologists made
it clear that as of Sunday morning there was in fact virtually no chance of
it doing so. Ross demanded that NOAA issue a public rebuke to those
scientists or heads would roll. And so in another example of Trump's war on
science NOAA was forced to issue the following unsigned cringeworthy and
obviously false statement:

*“The Birmingham National Weather Service’s Sunday morning tweet spoke in
absolute terms that were inconsistent with probabilities from the best
forecast products available at the time,”*

John K Clark
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