AS US Republicans jostle for the privilege of being their party's presidential candidate, battle lines are being drawn over science. One front runner. Rick Perry, Texas governor, stood by his position on anthropogenic climate change at a debate on 7 September in Simi Valley, California. 'The science is not settled on this," he said. 'The idea that we would put the American economy at jeopardy based on scientific theory thafs not settled yet to me is just nonsense." He implied that Galileo, whose views went against scientific orthodoxy at the time, would agree. Although former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, another front runner, wasn't challenged on science issues at the California debate.
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