Missouri Representative Emanuel Cleaver thinks you’ll believe this is “getting spit on” (and based on the title of this clip, so does whoever uploaded it):
So why wouldn’t Cleaver say something like this?
Americans are growing skeptical about the threat of global warming because “they don’t get” the complex information that scientists deliver, according to Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.).
Unless scientists can simplify their arguments to the level of newspapers that “print at the sixth grade level,” Cleaver said, the public is “going to get a headache and bail out.”
Why do we even need to be given arguments to consider? Why burden us with facts and evidence? Believing what somebody says just because he calls himself a scientist, regardless of whether or not what he practices is actually science, is the smartest thing there is. If a scientist didn’t know what he was talking about, he wouldn’t be a scientist, now would he?
Or she. (Sorry, Elena.)