Easily the most extraordinary exchange I've ever seen in a panel Q&A. @SciFleur, at the end of the #ApolloPlus50 panel, challenged Harrison Schmidt, the 12th man to walk on the moon, about his record of climate denial. 1/n
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This just happened a few minutes ago and I'm still marveling at it. At the end of the Q&A,
@SciFleur went up to the microphone and quoted Schmidt from this article on moon landing deniers: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/science/space/14hoax.html …#ApolloPlus50#SciWri18 2/n2 replies 24 retweets 117 likesShow this thread -
Schmidt: “If people decide they’re going to deny the facts of history and the facts of science and technology, there’s not much you can do with them...For most of them, I just feel sorry that we failed in their education.”
@SciFleur read that aloud...#ApolloPlus50#SciWri18 3/n3 replies 27 retweets 169 likesShow this thread -
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@SciFleur asked Schmidt if he saw any irony in having said that, given that he is a vocal denier of the scientific fact that global warming is caused by human activity.#OhDamn#NowItsOn#ApolloPlus50#SciWri18 4/n4 replies 20 retweets 222 likesShow this thread -
Schmidt said he didn't see any irony there, and that he saw no evidence that human activity was causing global warming, nor that global warming was happening as fast as the record shows. He said this in front of a room of *science journalists.*
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But "science journalists" are little more than incompetent stenographers. Why would he care who was in the room?
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