Virtually All Congressional Climate Deniers Rush to Explain: “I Am Not a Scientist.”  Aren’t We Tiring of This?

Apparently, Marco Rubio (pictured), Mitch McConnell, and the legion of other climate deniers in the U.S. Congress are all coached by the same guy.  There is no other explanation for the fact that their responses to questions on their anti-scientific position on the subject are identical in every case:  “I am not a scientist.”

But it’s unclear how this continues to wash with their constituents–regardless of how dimwitted some of them might be.

I’m not an oncologist, but I believe in cancer, and I refrain from making medically related statements in this arena so as to avoid ridicule. I’m not a geologist, but I believe the Earth is round, that it was formed 4.5 billion years ago, and that I would do well not to make assertions re: our planet that fly in the teeth of the accepted science on the topic.

If I disbelieved what 97% of the scientists in a certain domain were telling me, the onus would be on me to explain my theory, and to articulate why I think it’s superior to that of the vast majority of the world’s brightest people who have dedicated their entire intellectual lives to the subject. If I believed the Earth is flat, for instance, and I wanted to be taken seriously by educated people, I would need some really handsome evidence to back up my theory.  I couldn’t simply make such an assertion and defend it by saying that I’m not a scientist.  If I did, I’d look darn near as foolish as these boobs.