JoshuaZ comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 01 December 2012 04:35:39PM 0 points [-]

Empirically, Nixon was ok on science issues. For example, Nixon was essentially responsible for both the founding of NOAA and the EPA. If one wants to hang this on a specific Republican President, Reagan seems easier, given that he made multiple deeply uninformed comments about science.