Quotes About Controversy

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

You Are famous and it's confirmed, but not everyone is a fan.

The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions

The public cares little about science, except insofar as its conclusions can be made to intervene in behalf of some moral, religious or social controversy.

Bad, bad science. You can practically see the fingers wagging. Scientists had been bad boys; it was time for them to behave themselves. The tobacco industry would be the daddy who made sure they did. It wasn't just money at stake; it was individual liberty. Today, smoking, tomorrow … who knew? By protecting smoking, we protected freedom.

The results showed a fivefold increase in breast cancer risk among women with high levels of serum DDT or its metabolites.59 DDT does cause cancer, it does affect human health, and it does cost human lives. Rachel Carson was not wrong.

The committee was divided, but it was divided 8–1, with the dissenter appointed by the Reagan White House.

When posed to journalists, however, the loaded questions did the trick: they convinced people who didn't know otherwise that there was still a lot of doubt about the whole matter. The industry had realized that you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions, even if you actually knew the answers and they didn't help your case.

Many years later, the right wing continued to lambast Sagan well after the man was dead, while Seitz's attack on nuclear winter was reprised by Rush Limbaugh in the 1990s and by novelist Michael Crichton in the 2000s.110 What was going on? The answer is that the right-wing turn against science had begun.

It wasn't the Sierra Club that tried to pressure the National Academy of Sciences over the 1983 Carbon Dioxide Assessment; it was officials from the Department of Energy under Ronald Reagan. It wasn't Environmental Defense that worked with Bill Nierenberg to alter the Executive Summary of the 1983 Acid Rain Peer Review Panel; it was the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. And it was the Wall Street Journal spreading the attack

When posed to journalists, however, the loaded questions did the trick: they convinced people who didn't know otherwise that there was still a lot of doubt about the whole matter. The industry had realized that you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions, even if you actually knew the answers and they didn't help your case.41 And so the industry began to transmogrify emerging scientific consensus into raging scientific "debate.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them

The science was on Smith's side, but it didn't seem to matter to ranchers and hunters, or to state legislators. The debate wasn't about science anymore, if indeed it ever had been.

Once he had tried to get fired by recommending suicide in his column. All that Shrike had said was : "Remember, please, that you job is to increase the circulation of our paper. Suicide, it is only reasonable to think, must defeat this purpose".

we have a very strange relationship with success in this country. Everyone wants it, but a vocal minority insists on denigrating those who have achieved it.

The lid on the first case of spot-fixing in Twenty20 cricket had been blown. On

People love conspiracy theories.

WRITER So, go on then, get all smart about it—can you deny what I'm saying? Huh? Jesus was not some . . . Indonesian guy! He just wasn't. ACTOR I'm not Indonesian! Jesus Christ!

There's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead. I don't feel like a satan but I guess I am...keep on rockin' the free world.

Rock 'n' roll is everybody's fucking music…I would certainly hope that it's the devil's music, but it's not just the devil's music. I think that's where God and the devil shake hands – right there.

Welfare mothers make better lovers

I continued, "The painting shows this fish with a big eye and a halo, floating in air, and underneath the fish are all these Native Americans having sex." "What? What does that have to do with Custer's Last Stand?" "Well, the painting is titled, Holy Mackerel, Look at All Those Fucking Indians.