Talk:Brandon Smith (politician)

Mars temperature controversy
Someone needs to remove the nonsense on the temperature of Mars. It should be fairly clear that his wording "as it is on Mars" clearly indicates that he's not saying that both planets have the same temperature but that both have temperatures that are on the rise, which is a conclusion of several studies according to my 10 second google search. He later clarified on twitter that that is PRECISELY what he meant. Wikipedia is already a joke to a lot of people, let's not work to make it more of a joke by adding nonsense like this. Someone who knows how to edit needs to take this off. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.30.183.129 (talk) 02:34, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

I'm inclined to agree, not that the Mars temperature business should be removed, but that it should be updated to cover also his Twitter followup (saying he meant temperature trends, not temperatures per se), and whether that revised claim is more defensible than the original quoted one, and also his longer responses in Op-Ed pages and to constituents. There is a Louisville Eccentric Observer page here that both summarizes well and links other sources. However, it seems to be an Eccentric Observer blog page, and I'm not sure I'm seeing any other coverage in sources any higher on the reliability scale than blogs, either. They might be the best sources available.

Honestly, I came to this page hoping to learn whether Sen. Smith had at any point been asked to clarify his meaning at we ("in academia we all agree") ... I would consider his explanation of that to be newsworthy, but apparently he wasn't pressed on it. 184.17.88.132 (talk) 19:34, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

I added his twitter response to the Mars section. Epolk (talk) 00:24, 25 January 2015 (UTC)