Why are so many scientists dems and not republican

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Bevo Incognito

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So I read that the Pew research center did a poll a couple of years ago in which 55% of scientists said they are democrats, 6% said they are Republican, 32% are independent, and the rest don't know their affiliation.


Why do y'all think this is?
 
Perhaps because a lot of scientists depend on government funding for their work. Sucks that there were no Libertarians in the poll.
 
Because scientists were the anti-social nerds from childhood that sat in class dreaming of trying to figure out a way to be liked, and if they could prove something, anything, people might like them and accept them?
 
Interesting...most of the engineers I know tend to be conservatives/Republicans...

This was mentioned, but engineer =/= scientist. But most engineers, being better at math than verbal, probably don't know this.

There was a recent poll which said that conservatives don't "trust" science, or that they had the lowest level of trust in science.

It's funny, becasue not too long ago the % of conservatives who believed in global warming was higher than it is today.

The GOP has a real problem with stupid indoctrination, to put it bluntly. If they don't watch it, they're going to be a non-factor pretty soon. Look at them now. Santorum? Really?
 
Whoever dares to challenge The One is going to have to be ready for the most vicious attacks in history from the mainstream media. I don't blame the Republicans who want no part of that.
 
Let's be scientific not just guess.

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73% of scientists are male
78% of scientists are white
94% of scientists are NOT republicans

From this data we can logically hypothesize that the overwhelming majority of scientists are racist white democratic males.
(although the use of racist by definition identifies a skin color of white so I apologize for the redundancy.)
 
From this data we can logically hypothesize that the overwhelming majority of scientists are racist white democratic males.

With reasoning like that you must be a creationist.

Or a Republican.

But what am I saying.... you're both!

Some of you are going to extremes (or maybe not extremes, maybe you really don't understand or are aware of the data) to deny that white, evangelical republicans is the biggest bloc that is against science. It doesn't mean that every member of that group is, but as a group, they are.

This is another example where the right-wing evangelical/fundamentalist bloc is damaging the GOP.
 
I am an engineer and work around many other engineers. Most that I know are fiscal conservatives and social liberals. Most are labeled Republican but vote either way depending upon the candidate.
 
I don't know about PEW research's methodology. Who was considered a scientist (for example, were market researchers included), was it just PhDs, did it include potential voters, was it a mail or phone list, where did PEW obtain the list?


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What do you mean against science?

Against it. As in, not for it. They don't "trust" science.

Contrary to your claims, the anti-science group within the gop is not ridiculously small. And you are being a bit too clever when you say that virtually all religious people believe in dinosaurs. But believing in dinos isn't really the issue, is it? It is that they believe dinos existed at the same time as did man. So you're creating a rather fraudulent standard there, hoping to pull a fast one over on us. Shame on you.

It would help if you read this link.

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and conservatives have lower IQs according to this study:

There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.

The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice
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