Senate debates

Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Motions

Science

6:25 pm

Photo of Malcolm RobertsMalcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

The Senate notes that:

(a) valid scientific data proving cause-and-effect is vital as the only credible justification for policies claimed to be based on science;

(b) the following are often used today in our communities as substitutes for science, yet are not science:

  (i) populist views and anecdotes about weather events,

  (ii) short-term perspectives of cycles out of context,

  (iii) unsubstantiated claims of 'having the science',

  (iv) name calling,

  (v) claims of consensus,

  (vi) so-called peer-reviewed literature,

  (vii) appeals to authority,

  (viii) academic fallacies, and

  (ix) emotional claims or statements; and

(c) the ultimate arbiter of science is empirical scientific evidence, being:

  (i) objectively verified hard data as physical measurements and/or physical observations, and

  (ii) presented in a logical framework proving cause and effect.

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