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Chris Mooney Mocks Rick Perry’s Galileo Defense | “Galileo got outvoted for a spell,” Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) said at the last GOP debate in a response to a question about his denial of climate science. “We now find a movement in America that wants more religion in politics, and that rejects science on climate change and evolution alike,” science writer Chris Mooney writes in a tart response at DeSmogBlog. “Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength…and Galileo and Rick Perry ride off together into the Texas sunset.”