When our identity is tied up in a certain politician, we find it hard to hear any kind of
argument against that politician's words.
Not exact matches
The most obvious
politician's
argument against funding research in pure mathematics is that it costs money and it isn't useful.
You could make the
argument against a number of
politicians including Heseltine, Redwood etc..
Politicians (including the UK government) and others are (ab) using the anthropogenic climate change issue to further their own individual vested interests, regardless of whether there is any validity in the
arguments for and
against this issue.
What the contrarians need is not to win rationally the
argument for /
against man - made global warming (this has been resolved scientifically) but plant doubt in the public and
politicians, because inaction and the status quo is on the side of the traditional energy industry.