Cruz compares climate scientists to Inquisition

By Kyle Feldscher, Kyle Feldscher

Published December 20, 2015

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Scientists who doubt climate change are akin to Galileo, the scientist who was put under house arrest for finding the Earth rotates around the sun, according to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

The Republican presidential candidate compared the scientists agreeing with global warming to the persecution of Galileo for his findings that the Earth moves around the sun.