Clifton Brown
UnaffiliatedQ1 What advisory mechanisms will you implement to ensure that evidence and scientific findings play a crucial role in your policymaking process?
“Scientific review and the process of peer review is critical and will lead my investigations of any kind on any subject.”
Q2 Colorado farmers are facing multiple threats, amidst water scarcity and rising prices for fertilizer and other imported materials. As agriculture is our #1 export sector, in what ways do you imagine using your role to support evidence-based advancements to protect and support our farmers and natural resources in the years ahead?
“Global warming, pesticides, GMO’s, the environment, and sustainable agriculture is the key to having a healthy supply of agricultural products and a profitable industry.”
Q3 America has a growing AI industry, supporting cutting-edge innovation but raising issues of resource use, privacy, and economics. What is the right balance of costs and benefits for new data center construction in Colorado, and how would your policies accomplish that balance?
“I care far more about privacy rights, job reductions and resource use than about supporting a cutting-edge industry with the potential to create so much damage to society. No more data centers until we put some serious restrictions on what AI is able to do.”
Q4 Colorado has experienced a lingering measles outbreak since March of 2025. What evidence-based policies do you support to improve community and preventive health for your constituents, for infectious diseases and other threats?
“Freedom of choice is key. Vaccines work but mandating vaccines is not the way to go.”
Q5 What are your opinions on the current state of science literacy, and how could K-12 education standards be adapted to form a better public understanding of and relationship building in science?
“Since the cultural revolution of the sixties, it seems clear that the controlling interests in America would rather have a population of idiots that can be controlled and manipulated. Stupidity is the biggest reason we are likely to fail as a nation.”