The Peter Principle of Politics

You get elected to higher and higher positions until you are found incompetent at a political position, which you effectively get reelected to over and over...

Here, Arizona state Senator Sylvia Allen manages to contradict herself in two sequential sentences:

"The Earth has been here 6,000 years, long before anybody had environmental laws, and somehow it hasn’t been done away with. We need to get the uranium here in Arizona, so this state can get the money from it,"

Now, "science" tells us that the Earth is around 4.3 billion years old. The reason we know this is that we have something called radioactive decay measurement. In essence, if you know the rate at which radioactive materials decay, then you can determine how long ago a sample was purely radioactive material...in essence back calculating the age of the sample. The most accurate estimates of Earth's age come from radioactive decay measurements using...you guessed it...uranium.


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