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Statements about Science
Jim Bridenstine

Jim Bridenstine

Mostly False

This claim is partly cloudy

"This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning."

Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz

Half-True

'Invaders' from Japan

Says Americans "invented ‘Pong,’ ‘Space Invaders’ and the iPhone."

Wayne Smith

Wayne Smith

Pants on Fire!

Consensus: It's the opposite

"Science has not shown greenhouse gases to be a problem."

John McCain

John McCain

Half-True

True for specific fields like computer science

"Over half" of science, technology, engineering and mathematics students "receiving advanced degrees are not citizens of the United States of America."

Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse

Half-True

A question of degree(s)

"Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s."

Joe Barton

Joe Barton

Mostly False

Cloudy

Says U.S. greenhouse gas "emissions are at 20-year lows."

Charles Cooper

Charles Cooper

Half-True

No 'fertility cliff,' but science isn't settled

"Very few men outlive their own fertility."

Tweets

Tweets

Mostly True

It's science, people

While the sequester is in effect, the federal government is still funding a study on duck penises.

Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann

Pants on Fire!

Scientists tell us this is nonsense

"Scientists tell us that we could have a cure in 10 years for Alzheimer's" were it not for "overzealous regulators, excessive taxation and greedy litigators."

Rand Paul

Rand Paul

Mostly True

Study is more Mars than Maui

Says the federal government is supporting a study in Hawaii to "develop a menu for when we colonize Mars."

Janet Freedman

Janet Freedman

Mostly True

True for Newport, less so for Providence

Tide gauges measuring sea level in Rhode Island since 1930 have risen "maybe about 10 inches since that time."

Central Falls Police Department

Central Falls Police Department

Pants on Fire!

Cat-agorically untrue

"Statistics show one male cat can father 420,000 kittens in five years."

Choose: New Jersey

Choose: New Jersey

True

New Jersey leads the world

"We have more scientists and engineers per square mile than anywhere in the world."

Dave Weldon

Dave Weldon

Mostly False

Not so, say scientists

Embryonic stem cell research is at a "dead end, with no one good example of a successful treatment."

Jim Bohl

Jim Bohl

Mostly False

You'd have to eat a tube ... or more

Toothpaste contains "the poison substance of fluoride."

Michael Chippendale

Michael Chippendale

False

Something smells wrong here.

"Hydrogen sulfide . . . [was] used in the genocide of Jews in Germany. "

David Brooks

David Brooks

True

In the mid 1980s, Gingrich revived an idea from 1920s space pioneers

Newt Gingrich "has suggested" building "a mirror system in space" could improve the Earth’s habitability.

Frank Brogan

Frank Brogan

Half-True

Some say yes. Some say no

Says Anthropology is a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) field.

Matt Gaetz

Matt Gaetz

Mostly True

Expert says exactly that — but he's in minority

"A Cornell University research study concludes that ethanol generates a 29 percent energy loss, meaning it takes more than a gallon of gasoline to produce a gallon of ethanol."

Critics of water fluoridation

Critics of water fluoridation

Pants on Fire!

Just one of many conspiracy theories

Say water fluoridation started in Nazi Germany ghettos and death camps to pacify the Jews.

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