@carlzimmer Rephrased: Should GOP candidates be confronted with and forced to defend their abject rejection of basic science?

— Photonic Gaucho (@goddamnedfrank) March 2, 2015

Seriously, transplant this question to any other issue and try to make sense of it. At what point do we say that an entire group of people campaigning to lead the country are so goddamned universally insane on a subject that there’s nothing useful or worthwhile about asking them about it?

.@carlzimmer If every GOP candidate thought the Moon landing was a hoax would anybody say there’s no point in “politicizing” that?

— Photonic Gaucho (@goddamnedfrank) March 2, 2015

I really don’t get the logic at play and am not sure why the question is even being asked unless it’s to arrive at this rather inevitable point.