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Mother Jones: "No, this is not the punch line of a joke. A Pew Research Center Poll from July 2009 showed that only around 6 percent of U.S. scientists are Republicans; 55 percent are Democrats, 32 percent are independent, and the rest “don’t know” their affiliation.
koan:" I think the way they did it makes the point, especially with them being from academia i.e. people who deal in facts and logic know that the Republican party doesn't."
Kevin Drum makes the point, and I agree with, "I would be surprised if it was more than 6%".
" "Roughghly speaking, though, this doesn’t seem like such a hard question to me. The more time you spend practicing science, the more time you’re going to spend discovering that conservatives hold scientific views that you find preposterous. "
I think attacking the poll misses the point.
It makes perfect sense that scientists would be mostly Democrats, and liberals, as that party leads with science, while the Republicans eschew science e.g. their economic (supply side economics) and social theories (Horatio Alger nonsense), causes of global warming and religion over evolution is NOT taught in any major university as fact. They are all wrong.
Most scientists are liberal, because the main component of the liberal philosophy is science.
And the Democratic party is the home of the liberals.
When have you ever seen Republican theory make sense?
Happy New Year, cheers.
Kevin Drump:" "Roughghly speaking, though, this doesn’t seem like such a hard question to me. The more time you spend practicing science, the more time you’re going to spend discovering that conservatives hold scientific views that you find preposterous. Sure, liberals have PETA and the odd vaccination fetishist, but really, it’s no contest. In the Democratic Party those are just fringe views. Even the anti-GM food folks don’t amount to much. The modern Republican Party, by contrast, panders endlessly to the scientific yahooism of its base. What would be amazing is if much more than 6% of the scientific community identified with the Republican Party.
Where are the Republican Scientists? – Mother Jones
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Only 6% of Scientist's are Republican
If you investigate the survey you will find that the survey was limited to members of the AAAS. Most of the members of the AAAS are from academia. As you probably know, a survey of a subset of a population cannot represent the whole population. |
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