How come only 6% of scientists are Republican?

[Mike_Yates]

I think it's because scientists know that the Earth is older than 6,000 years, and human beings did NOT work alongside dinosaurs.

 

[The_Trouvere]

Why does Obama's inner circle have only 7% of
people experienced in business? Why is it that people who want America to trust
them with the economy have no practical experience or knowledge of business?

Can you document that 7% figure. According to the Pew Research Survey Report
linked to by the OP, 6% of scientists are Republican, 55% are Democrats, 12%
lean Republican, 81% lean Democrat, 9% are conservatives, and 52% are liberals.

 

[The_Trouvere]

Why does Obama's inner circle have only 7% of
people experienced in business? Why is it that people who want America to trust
them with the economy have no practical experience or knowledge of business?

Can you document that 7% figure? According to the Pew Research Survey Report
linked to by the OP, 6% of scientists are Republicans, 55% are Democrats, 12%
lean Republican, 81% lean Democrat, 9% are conservatives, and 52% are liberals.
http://people-press.org/report/?pageid=1549

 

[The_Trouvere]

What a ridiculously partisan and inaccurate post from you, Ham. I'm embarrassed for you.

Ham Murabi takes pride in what would embarrass most people.

 

[Mike_Yates]

Most scientists are atheists. There aren't many republicans/conservatives whom don't believe god.

 

[busybody..]

Fuck! I haven't looked at one of your posts in a year. Now I know why. Being the optimist I am, I thought perhaps you, at long last, were beginning to make sense. My bad. I'll check on you in another year. Morons and dipshits I do not suffer lightly.Ta.


Comshaw

Mirthless Moron

 

[busybody..]

What a ridiculously partisan and inaccurate post from you, Ham. I'm embarrassed for you.

CLOWN

You of all "people" should be embarrassed fro even pretending to write this

CLOWN

 

[where]

It's because Mecha is everything Vette is not.

Younger. Stronger. Smarter. Unwrinkled. Has sex appeal. More virile. No grey hairs.

and doesn't have to send begging PMs to lit chicks for tit pics. We send them anyway.

The number might be low because it is politically a bad move in the science world to confess to being a republican.

only if you are a republican who doesn't believe in evolution.

Wow, why pull me into this? I guess if you can't answer the OP question, and you don't know how to properly insult Rory, you might as well go after people he "posts with".

A low moment, even for you vetteman.

it's pure envy. take it as a compliment.

I never made that connection. Huh. Nice catch.

not buying it.

The productive scientists, about 6 percent of them, work in the private sector. They are the Republicans.
The other scientists subsist on grants. They are the Democrats.

Cite your sources please?

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Why are there so few "Republicans" period in the halls of the center of the diversity and tolerance world?

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

One reason might possibly that they gravitate towards areas where they can profit and excel based on merit and not the ability to conform to the politically-correct consensus in order to remain attached to a teat on the public weal...



Are we talking Scientists like the Glow Ball Warning hoaxers?

 

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One reason might possibly that they gravitate towards areas where they can profit and excel based on merit and not the ability to conform to the politically-correct consensus in order to remain attached to a teat on the public weal...



Are we talking Scientists like the Glow Ball Warning hoaxers?

again... show a breakdown of privately funded scientists as opposed to publicly funded ones according to political persuasion.

 

[Sean]

AJ thinks AIDS is a conspiracy to get government funding. His opinion on anything to do with science can be discounted from the start.

 

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AJ thinks AIDS is a conspiracy to get government funding. His opinion on anything to do with science can be discounted from the start.

clearly barking up the wrong loony tree on that one, but I'm wondering how much credibility there is in the rumors about the swine flu 'epidemic'.

and scientists do have a vested interest in creating scares to peddle drugs. but they are mostly working in the private sector which according to most of the wingnuts on here, would mean they are rebublican.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

again... show a breakdown of privately funded scientists as opposed to publicly funded ones according to political persuasion.

Why?

The Pew Research was Conducted in a partnership with the AAAS and its membership...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science,
"Triple A-S" (AAAS), is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. In addition to organizing membership activities, AAAS publishes the journal Science, as well as many scientific newsletters, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide.

AAAS History
Founded in 1848, AAAS serves some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of one million. The non-profit AAAS is open to all and fulfills its mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!, the premier science-news Web site, a service of AAAS.

AAAS is a global organization, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, U.K., and award-winning news correspondents reporting from an array of countries. The U.S. headquarters facility, designed by renowned architect Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, was dedicated in September 1997 as the William T. Golden Center for Science and Engineering, in honor of the Association's long-time treasurer. In 2009, the AAAS headquarters facility became the first existing, not newly constructed facility in the District of Columbia to earn a gold-level certification through the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership Environmental & Energy Design program.

That might have more than a little to do with the results since, for example, we know they forced out anyone who didn't agree with the Glow Ball Warning hoax.

That might tend to bias the sample and hence the result.

Is that NOT a possibility?

 

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Why?

The Pew Research was Conducted in a partnership with the AAAS and its membership...



That might have more than a little to do with the results since, for example, we know they forced out anyone who didn't agree with the Glow Ball Warning hoax.

That might tend to bias the sample and hence the result.

Is that NOT a possibility?

it is a possibility, but given that it is open to all and is the largest one in the world plus the sample size (which was randomised) was over 2000, then possibility for bias is much lower.

and it's only a very very small number saying climate change is a hoax, which wouldn't statistically affect the sample.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

AJ thinks AIDS is a conspiracy to get government funding. His opinion on anything to do with science can be discounted from the start.

Political appeasement movement similar to the hoax of Glow ball Warning, the science of the "politically aware" scientific "consensus..."

And herein lies the rub to what I just posted, a lot of "scientists" probably don't associate with groups like the AAAS because they get tired of the closed-minded attitude and proclivity to pronounce the science of the day as "settled."

That's probably why the sample was so "liberal..."

Book smart <> Street smart (common sense)
__________________
"As the 20th century drew to a close, the connection between hard scientific fact and public policy became increasingly elastic. In part this was possible because of the complacency of the scientific profession; in part because of the lack of good science education among the public; in part because of the rise of specialized advocacy groups which have been enormously effective in getting publicity and shaping policy; and in great part because of the decline of the media as an independent assessor of fact."
Michael Crichton, 2003 lecture at Caltech "Aliens Cause Global Warming."

 

[Sean]

clearly barking up the wrong loony tree on that one, but I'm wondering how much credibility there is in the rumors about the swine flu 'epidemic'.

and scientists do have a vested interest in creating scares to peddle drugs. but they are mostly working in the private sector which according to most of the wingnuts on here, would mean they are rebublican.

Most of the scares are created by the media. Scientists will produce some research which is then translated into total bollocks by some reporter with the scientific understanding of the average five year old.

 

[Sean]

Political appeasement movement similar to the hoax of Glow ball Warning, the science of the "politically aware" scientific "consensus..."

And herein lies the rub to what I just posted, a lot of "scientists" probably don't associate with groups like the AAAS because they get tired of the closed-minded attitude and proclivity to pronounce the science of the day as "settled."

That's probably why the sample was so "liberal..."

Book smart <> Street smart (common sense)
__________________
"As the 20th century drew to a close, the connection between hard scientific fact and public policy became increasingly elastic. In part this was possible because of the complacency of the scientific profession; in part because of the lack of good science education among the public; in part because of the rise of specialized advocacy groups which have been enormously effective in getting publicity and shaping policy; and in great part because of the decline of the media as an independent assessor of fact."
Michael Crichton, 2003 lecture at Caltech "Aliens Cause Global Warming."

You don't get to comment on having scientific truth corrupted by political partisanship, either.

 

[Ishmael]

Why?

The Pew Research was Conducted in a partnership with the AAAS and its membership...



That might have more than a little to do with the results since, for example, we know they forced out anyone who didn't agree with the Glow Ball Warning hoax.

That might tend to bias the sample and hence the result.

Is that NOT a possibility?

There is the key to the skew.

Ishmael

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

clearly barking up the wrong loony tree on that one, but I'm wondering how much credibility there is in the rumors about the swine flu 'epidemic'.

and scientists do have a vested interest in creating scares to peddle drugs. but they are mostly working in the private sector which according to most of the wingnuts on here, would mean they are rebublican.

Show me the division between private sector and public sector when they are mostly competing for government largess.

32% of your sample picked the safe, "Independent."

Perhaps you have heard of the Bradley effect in which people polled tend to worry about the opinion of the pollster and if there is an aura of hostility in the scientific community towards "conservative" as there is in Hollywood, I can see that, too, easily affecting the answers to the pollsters on political leaning...

The term scientist does not automatically confer courage upon an individual who has been taught to keep quite and go along to get along.

 

[Sean]

Show me the division between private sector and public sector when they are mostly competing for government largess.

32% of your sample picked the safe, "Independent."

Perhaps you have heard of the Bradley effect in which people polled tend to worry about the opinion of the pollster and if there is an aura of hostility in the scientific community towards "conservative" as there is in Hollywood, I can see that, too, easily affecting the answers to the pollsters on political leaning...

The term scientist does not automatically confer courage upon an individual who has been taught to keep quite and go along to get along.

Did you miss the bit where it was an anonymous poll?

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

There is the key to the skew.

Ishmael

And we are assured, without any links, that the "deniers" were an insignificant minority of the Science community...

The lees and dregs of the politics of science are still firmly in place long after the hoax has been outed...

Does that make the smallest percentage the only "smart" scientists?



Think about that one all you Glow-Ball Warning worshipers!

 

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Most of the scares are created by the media. Scientists will produce some research which is then translated into total bollocks by some reporter with the scientific understanding of the average five year old.

this is true, but there is a lot of money to be made from fake medical conditions which are perpetuated by the big pharmacorps and developed and 'cured' by the scientists working for them.

Point being of course is that it is the scientists working for private companies who are just as likely (if not more so) as those getting paid by the taxpayer to scam the public and funding bodies, both public and private.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Did you miss the bit where it was an anonymous poll?

You're still aware. It's called the Bradley Effect.

Now, when challenged, I went out and did some simple research. I suggest you might want to do the same. It says anonymous, but there's a world of difference between saying it and perception (being intimidated and paranoid about the motives of your fellows)...

When it comes to the Great "Educated" Science consensus.

We've seen them throughout history do some most egregious things to their fellow scientists turned "heretic."