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To: koan who wrote (314056)	12/23/2024 7:19:45 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361891

<<<<<The fact of the matter is one group is right and the other group is wrong.>>>>> well, how can you argue with that? <smile>

To: koan who wrote (314056)

12/23/2024 11:58:56 PM

From: techtrader73

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the 6% are probably the top in their field, the others are probably like your daughter fake teacher scientist lol

Only 6% of Scientist's are Republican, and most are liberals. Why?

To: koan who wrote (314056)	12/24/2024 2:17:45 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361891

>> Only 6% of Scientist's are Republican, and most are liberals. Why? Surely, that cannot be a serious question. Professors -- who never dealt with the problems of government -- are uniformly blue. Why? Because they are dealing with the difficulty of running a business, having to deal with the federal bureaucracy, watching their money taken to give to other people who don't work nearly as hard, either. Essentially, the BLUE "professors" were hired to do a job and the only thing they seek is a moderate paycheck and tenure. It is a pathetic thing that these people end up being teachers -- people who don't even know what they're teaching about. OTOH, among physicians, the smartest tend to cluster among high-paying specialties. Which is probably the reason they are high-paying. I've known an inordinate number of physicians in that category. They do their jobs, manage their money, and vote Republican. For the most part. Because they understand that hard work only pays off if government gets out of the way, and these people do not want government getting in the way of their hard work and excellent work product.

To: koan who wrote (314056)	12/24/2024 7:35:13 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361891

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.

To: koan who wrote (314056)	12/24/2024 9:56:09 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361891

More on the PEW poll Results for the scientist survey are based on 2,533 online interviews conducted from May 1 to June 14, 2009 with members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. A sample of 9,998 members was drawn from the AAAS membership list excluding those who were not based in the United States or whose membership type identified them as primary or secondary-level educators. And the society didn’t just provide Pew with its membership list. “[AAAS Director] Waylon Butler and his colleagues as AAAS were instrumental at constructing the sample of scientists and managing the recruitments of participants for the scientist survey,” says the Pew report. This is important, because the AAAS is (as its name suggests) a political advocacy group. And, according to its website, the top issues it advocates for are climate change legislation, increased funding for the National Science Foundation, stem cell research, and green energy initiatives. Obviously, these aren’t the types of efforts that Republicans tend to support. It’s not hard to see why GOPers wouldn’t want to shell out the $146 membership fee to join an organization whose main mission is to advocate for issues they personally oppose. So it makes sense that the Pew poll may be skewed in favor of liberal Democrats. But the question of where most scientists stand on the political spectrum is still worth looking into, and I’m curious to see what a broader study might show. commentary.org