# Quote — Chris Mooney, The Republican War on Science

> Journalists should treat fringe scientific claims with considerable skepticism and find out what major peer-reviewed papers or assessments have to say about them. Moreover, they should adhere to the principle that the more outlandish or dramatic the claim, the more skepticism it warrants.

- Author: [Chris Mooney](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-mooney.md)
- Book: [The Republican War on Science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-mooney/the-republican-war-on-science.md)
- Page: 253
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chris_Mooney#The_Republican_War_on_Science_(2005)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-mooney/the-republican-war-on-science/journalists-should-treat

## More from this book

> But if we care about science and believe that it should play a crucial role in decisions about our future, we must steadfastly oppose further political gains by the modern Right. This political movement has patently demonstrated that it will not defend the integrity of science in any case in which science runs afoul of its core political constituencies. In so doing, it has ceded any right to govern a technologically advanced and sophisticated nation.

p. 255 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-mooney/the-republican-war-on-science/but-if-we-care.md)

> From acid rain to global climate change, from “creation science” to “intelligent design,” conservatives had been meddling with science for years, largely on behalf of their pro-industry and religiously conservative supporters.

p. 224 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-mooney/the-republican-war-on-science/from-acid-rain.md)

> “Healthy skepticism is an essential and treasured feature of scientific analysis,” Gibbons added. “But willful distortion of evidence has no place at the table of scientific inquiry.”

p. 59 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chris-mooney/the-republican-war-on-science/healthy-skepticism-is-an-essential.md)