“When a politician, on a subject implicating science — hard science, economic science, social science — says, ‘The debate is over,’ you may be sure of two things. It’s that the debate is raging and he’s losing it.”

—  George Will

Discussion, Fox News Sunday, February 16, 2014
2010s

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