"I'm not too sure about global warming"
"Get in the loving cell"
Just like how some criminal charges were brought against researchers who falsely claimed ciggarettes were not addictive and destroyed lives, charges being brought against false scientists who claim climate change isn't real and damage the whole world is not the worst idea anyone has ever had--certainly not 'handicapped'. Freedom of speech is not the freedom to spread dangerous misinformation from a position of power. However, I would not support jailing psueudoscientists.
Also, I don't believe you. I can't find a single reliable source claiming he said this. The most I see is that he openly wondered if it might be appropriate when asked if it was, not reaching a conclusion.
“Was it appropriate to jail the guys from Enron?” Mr. Nye asked in a video interview with Climate Depot’s Marc Morano. “We’ll see what happens. Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive, and so on?”
“In these cases, for me, as a taxpayer and voter, the introduction of this extreme doubt about climate change is affecting my quality of life as a public citizen,” Mr. Nye said. “So I can see where people are very concerned about this, and they’re pursuing criminal investigations as well as engaging in discussions like this.”
“The extreme doubt about climate change people — without going too far afield here — are leaving the world worse than they found it because they are keeping us from getting to work. They are holding us back,” Mr. Nye said in a post on Climate Depot, a project of the free market, nonprofit Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.
And that's from a highly conservative source.
I guess conservatives as a whole are just anti-scientific bigots!
I mean... yea. Conservatism inherently opposes science. By definition, they believe in sticking to traditional beliefs rather than advancing based on new research.
