{"id":56945,"date":"2015-02-13T14:48:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T19:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/fact-checker-rand-pauls-claim-twice-in-one-day-that-he-has-a-biology-degree\/"},"modified":"2015-02-13T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T19:48:41","slug":"fact-checker-rand-pauls-claim-twice-in-one-day-that-he-has-a-biology-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/ron-paul\/fact-checker-rand-pauls-claim-twice-in-one-day-that-he-has-a-biology-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Checker: Rand Pauls claim twice in one day that he has a biology degree"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a biology degree, okay? <\/p>\n

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), in remarks at the Lincoln Labs Reboot Congress conference, Feb. 12, 2015 <\/p>\n

This column has been updated with an additional explanation by Pauls spokesman. <\/p>\n

We first spotted a version of this quote in a Bloomberg column by David Weigel, and then checked the quotes with our colleague Jose DelReal, who had attended the conference. <\/p>\n

This is a bit of an odd one, given that Paul does not have a college undergraduate degree. <\/p>\n

Paul mentioned his alleged degree at the conference not once, but twice. First, in an exchange with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Paul said: <\/p>\n

Arrington: Lets talk about economics because maybe you can actually explain this to me. I have an econ degree which means I know just enough not to understand any of what our government is [inaudible] <\/p>\n

Paul: Mines in biology and English so this is going to be a great conversation. <\/p>\n

Then, later in the conversation, expounding on what he considered the virtues of Bitcoin, Paul said: <\/p>\n

This is just me. I have a biology degree, okay? But with Bitcoin my concern always was whether or not something has real value. So I could imagine a kind of coin that was exchangeable. This gets back to the whole idea, does money have to be exchangeable for something to be of value? <\/p>\n

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