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Friday 8th of May 2026

2016 Presidential election It feels like we are in a world where, to me, some meaningful part of the electorate is beyond reasoning with – beyond fact, anti-science. Michael Lewis, Financial Times, December 10-11, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Anti-science Should the public come to believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue. Frank Luntz, Republican Party pollster and strategist © 2019 Kwiple.com
Anti-science I don't believe it. Donald Trump, explaining why the 2018 National Climate Assessment report, which was prepared by 300 scientists in 13 federal agencies and predicts dire economic consequences of global warming, was released on Black Friday, when few people would hear about it © 2018 Kwiple.com
Anti-science If we get any stupider about science, we'll forget how to cook crystal meth. Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Anti-science The mixing of Human Embryos with Jellyfish cells to create a glow-in-the-dark human, we say not in Georgia. Tom Kirby, Georgia State Representative (2012-2023) © 2023 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Portion of Americans who believe that people can be supernaturally healed: 2/3 Who claim to have experienced such healing personally: 1/4 Harper's Index, December 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus Trump's now back in charge. It's not the doctors. Jared Kushner, bragging to Bob Woodward in April, 2020, about sidelining scientists to reopen the economy © 2020 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed the fetal pain bill. It rained that night. Now God has His hold on California. Shannon Grove, California Republican Assemblywoman, blaming California's drought on abortion © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say There's no such thing as evolution. That we came from a snake? No I don't believe that. Roy Moore © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Time for a quick reality check. Smoking doesn't kill. Mike Pence © 2016 Kwiple.com
Global warming Climate scepticism is being driven out by climate cynicism. A sceptic questions the evidence for a given claim and asks whether it is believable. A cynic questions the motives of the people who deploy the evidence, regardless of whether it is believable or not. Any attempt to defend the facts gets presented as evidence that the facts simply suit the interests of the people peddling them. David Runciman © 2017 Kwiple.com
Gun lobbyists say Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves. NRA, 11:43 AM – 7 Nov 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiple dictionary creationism (krē ā'shən iz'əm), n. As Margaret Mead said, “The belief that Rome was  built in a day.” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing any citizen to demand a hearing to challenge instructional materials about evolution or global warming is change we believe in  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Evolution is just a theory, not a fact © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Undermining science and people's respect for it is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain. Ben Carson © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them. Mike Huckabee © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie The reality is I'm not an evolutionary biologist. Bobby Jindal, a Brown University biology major, when asked about his stance on evolution © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution. Rick Perry © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm not a scientist, man. Marco Rubio © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Science leads you to killing people. Ben Stein © 2015 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest The Soil Health Division of the US Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service forbids employees from using the term “climate change,” in the belief, apparently, that what you can't say can't hurt you © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say Why do we assume that the body’s natural immune system isn’t the marvel that it really is? Why do we think that we can create something better than God in terms of combating disease? Ron Johnson, anti-vaxxer © 2022 Kwiple.com