28 Aug TO DO:Choose a quote from the list belowExplore the science

TO DO:Choose a quote from the list belowExplore the science behind itCreate a presentation on whether or not the politicians’ statement is backed by scientific factShare that presentation in the discussionCOMMENT ON AT LEAST ONE PERSON’S PRESENTATION Politicians have many stances when it comes to scientific information, however, science is not a belief ora feeling, it is evidence based. Many politicians often express their beliefs or thoughts on science in thepublic arena as whole truths, when many times these statements are anything but. Your project will beto take one of these actual quotes of politicians (politician’s names have been removed) and determinewhether their statements are based in science or belief.1. “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thingdown.”2. “Wind is a finite resource and harnessing it would slow the winds down whichwould cause the temperature to go up.”3. “All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big BangTheory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. And it’s lies to try to keep meand all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need asavior.”4. “Also, you claim that is environmentally friendly to ride a bike. But if I am notmistaken a cyclists [sic] has an increased heart rate and respiration. That meansthe act of riding a bike results in greater emissions of carbon dioxide from therider. Since CO2 is deemed a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclists areactually polluting when they ride.”5. ‘There’s a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She saidher daughter was given that vaccine. She told me her daughter suffered mentalretardation as a result of that vaccine. There are very dangerous consequences.’6. ‘American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals andcoming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. So they’re already intothis experiment.’7. “Nuclear fission technology is unsafe, expensive, and dirty from the mining ofuranium to the disposal of spent fuel. As such we will end subsidies to the nuclearindustry immediately and phase out nuclear power over a 10 year timeline.Existing nuclear waste will be handled with onsite dry cask storage of high-levelwaste into perpetuity. No transport of nuclear waste.”8. ‘I thought I would share with you what science says today about silicone breastimplants. If you have them, you’re healthier than if you don’t. That is what theultimate science shows. … In fact, there’s no science that shows that siliconebreast implants are detrimental and, in fact, they make you healthier.’9. “You know what, evolution is a myth …Why aren’t monkeys still evolving intohumans?”10. “Carbon dioxide is not a harmful gas; it is a harmless gas … And yet we’re beingtold that we have to reduce this natural substance and reduce the Americanstandard of living to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturallyoccurring in the Earth. “11. ‘Every single year that we’re on Earth, you have huge tons of silt deposited by the Mississippi River, by the Amazon River, by the Nile, by every major river system — and for that matter, creek, all the way down to the smallest systems… And every time you have that soil or rock whatever it is that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise. Because now you’ve got less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up’12. ‘Condoms are ‘very poor’ protection against sexually transmitted diseases’13. ‘By settling the moon, we can build mining and transport on the surface of the moon in its shallow gravity well and the lack of an atmosphere works in our favor. Materials can be launched from the surface of the moon with nothing more than a solar driven catapult. Raw ore and manufactured good can be launched off the surface with ease. There is never a cloudy day on the moon and solar panels work very well in a vacuum. The shallow gravity well and lack of atmosphere means that we can launch from the moon with a mass driver, an electric catapult. Fine tuning and meteor deflection can be done from the surface of the moon.”