Only six percent of scientists are Republicans

[BarrySotero]

A "scientist" no doubt often means an academic or gov/non profit and Republicans tend to get real jobs while the prematurely gray and balding lib nerds stay in their cocoons at uni and churn out junk science like global warming rubbish - which gets them attention from suggestible lib girls with bad tattoos. We live in a time of science corruption - and look at that kook Obama appointed as science czar.
Also from the "study":

"On average, Republicans scored somewhat higher than Democrats on the science test, and 37% of Republicans are in the high knowledge group compared with 27% of Democrats"

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: BarrySotero
A "scientist" no doubt often means an academic or gov/non profit and Republicans tend to get real jobs while the prematurely gray and balding lib nerds stay in their cocoons at uni and churn out junk science like global warming rubbish - which gets them attention from suggestible lib girls with bad tattoos.

I think Gonad can rest his case on this one. lol

 

[MotF Bane]

Originally posted by: BarrySotero
A "scientist" no doubt often means an academic or gov/non profit and Republicans tend to get real jobs while the prematurely gray and balding lib nerds stay in their cocoons at uni and churn out junk science like global warming rubbish - which gets them attention from suggestible lib girls with bad tattoos. We live in a time of science corruption - and look at that kook Obama appointed as science czar.
Also from the "study":

"On average, Republicans scored somewhat higher than Democrats on the science test, and 37% of Republicans are in the high knowledge group compared with 27% of Democrats"

:laugh::laugh:

 

[senseamp]

Originally posted by: Drako

Originally posted by: senseamp

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
Perhaps most college science professors are liberal, but that's been understood since the '60s. Check out the engineering population though; based on personal experience, I would say 90%+ are conservative.

What are you talking about? Come to Silicon valley, 90% liberal engineers here.

LOL, what part of Silicon valley do you live in. I would say it's closer to 75% conservative, 25% liberal.

Really, go to google or apple campus and do a poll.

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: BarrySotero
A "scientist" no doubt often means an academic or gov/non profit and Republicans tend to get real jobs while the prematurely gray and balding lib nerds stay in their cocoons at uni and churn out junk science like global warming rubbish - which gets them attention from suggestible lib girls with bad tattoos. We live in a time of science corruption - and look at that kook Obama appointed as science czar.
Also from the "study":

"On average, Republicans scored somewhat higher than Democrats on the science test, and 37% of Republicans are in the high knowledge group compared with 27% of Democrats"

So eat that, you Leftist Flakes.

 

[BarrySotero]

Originally posted by: NaughtyGeek
Scientists tend to be dreamers, nuff said.

Who are very prone to psychosis - a correlation easily seen in the artistic community that's also liberal at this time (hasn't always been that way).

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
Perhaps most college science professors are liberal, but that's been understood since the '60s. Check out the engineering population though; based on personal experience, I would say 90%+ are conservative.

You pulled that number out of your rear.

Yeah, he didn't qualify it correctly. He should have said that 90% of the GOOD Engineers are Conservative

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: Engineer

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
Perhaps most college science professors are liberal, but that's been understood since the '60s. Check out the engineering population though; based on personal experience, I would say 90%+ are conservative.

You pulled that number out of your rear.

Yeah, he didn't qualify it correctly. He should have said that 90% of the GOOD Engineers are Conservative

LOL. By the way, I think many on here don't classifly Conservative = Republican (for whatever reason).

 

[QuantumPion]

What percentage of welfare recipients are republicans, I wonder.

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Could it be that 94% of the nation's scientists regard the Republicans as being complete imbeciles or even as being destructive, vicious, and evil?

 

[Lemon law]

This thread has, IMHO, gotten off on weird tangents since the second poster hit the bulls eye on critical thinking skills.

And critical thinking skills have a lot to do with proving various cause and effect relationship even though a "scientist" is a very vague word that should not include engineers who apply known science.

Look at the 55% democrat and 6% republican, a full factor of almost 9X, that almost mandates a critical thinker will will not and can not buy even a small fraction of the republican dogma. By and large, I doubt the 55% of scientists who self identify with the democratic party buy all the democratic dogma either, and then there is the 39% who basically claim independent.

But we are still left with the fact that critical thinkers and the republican party are presently contradictions in terms. And hence, by in large, mutually exclusive. And judging by the complete mess GWB&co made of our country when they were allowed to control policy, scientists are not the only folks rejecting large parts of present GOP dogma.

Because even if we don't fully understand cause and effect critical thinking, its hard to agree with the stinking mess results we are left with.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Originally posted by: BoberFett
Way to cherry pick data.

Only 55% call themselves Democrats.

So a fairly large percentage of scientists understand that both parties have their heads up their collective asses.

Picking two pound cherries yourself are ya'?

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: BarrySotero

Originally posted by: NaughtyGeek
Scientists tend to be dreamers, nuff said.

Who are very prone to psychosis - a correlation easily seen in the artistic community that's also liberal at this time (hasn't always been that way).

Actually you don't really understand what you see. Those people who can become aware of their own psychosis are actually the healthier ones. It is those who have completely repressed their feelings and look to be emotionally stable who are actually have the trouble recognizing how sick they really are.

The road to sanity takes you through madness. It can't be helped, because we are all insane and it takes knowing it first before you realize you have work to do.

The mad are simply people who are closer to what they feel, but that is only a small advantage, because they are also mad because they are running harder to deny those feelings they can't keep down.

They, like the so called sane, do not know that what they feel are lies, and not the absolute truth that feeling such feelings makes it seem.

Everybody hates himself. The mad fall into those feelings without the awareness that they are lies. They are crazy because they will do anything to try to run away.

Everybody who seeks mental help are actually seeking to be better at being sick.

 

[themusgrat]

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
Who was labeling whom "professorial" as a derogatory term last presidential election? Explain why Sarah Palin is so popular. Or Joe the Plumber. I can go on and on. I stand by my statement, there is example after example open hostile contempt towards intelligence and education and applauding mediocrity and near complete retardation on the part of the right.

Fine, I can play this game. I didn't follow the last election closely, I'll be honest, after McCain sold out to the far right wing there was no point. I'd assume McCain made the "professional" remark. He was largely an idiot in the campaign, I'll assume that :shocker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: he said stupid things to try to get votes. I'm assuming he thought much the same as you, that most people were too dumb to see through it, and see how well that worked out for him.

Joe the Plumber was simply a way to make fun of Obama, it was never really an insult to intelligence at all. Obama coined the term as I recall, or maybe I'm just mistaken.

Either way, you're wrong. The modern Republic party does not hold intelligence and education in contempt, and no amount of you saying so will make anyone believe it. I will concede that certain key Republicans seem to want to play that card though we all know it's BS to get votes, and I sincerely apologize for the conservative party ever loosing its footing so far as to even conceive of the notion.

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: themusgrat

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
Who was labeling whom "professorial" as a derogatory term last presidential election? Explain why Sarah Palin is so popular. Or Joe the Plumber. I can go on and on. I stand by my statement, there is example after example open hostile contempt towards intelligence and education and applauding mediocrity and near complete retardation on the part of the right.

Fine, I can play this game. I didn't follow the last election closely, I'll be honest, after McCain sold out to the far right wing there was no point. I'd assume McCain made the "professional" remark. He was largely an idiot in the campaign, I'll assume that :shocker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: he said stupid things to try to get votes. I'm assuming he thought much the same as you, that most people were too dumb to see through it, and see how well that worked out for him.

Joe the Plumber was simply a way to make fun of Obama, it was never really an insult to intelligence at all. Obama coined the term as I recall, or maybe I'm just mistaken.

Either way, you're wrong. The modern Republic party does not hold intelligence and education in contempt, and no amount of you saying so will make anyone believe it. I will concede that certain key Republicans seem to want to play that card though we all know it's BS to get votes, and I sincerely apologize for the conservative party ever loosing its footing so far as to even conceive of the notion.

Who is going to apologize for the liberals?

 

[surfsatwerk]

Originally posted by: themusgrat

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
Who was labeling whom "professorial" as a derogatory term last presidential election? Explain why Sarah Palin is so popular. Or Joe the Plumber. I can go on and on. I stand by my statement, there is example after example open hostile contempt towards intelligence and education and applauding mediocrity and near complete retardation on the part of the right.

Fine, I can play this game. I didn't follow the last election closely, I'll be honest, after McCain sold out to the far right wing there was no point. I'd assume McCain made the "professional" remark. He was largely an idiot in the campaign, I'll assume that :shocker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: he said stupid things to try to get votes. I'm assuming he thought much the same as you, that most people were too dumb to see through it, and see how well that worked out for him.

Joe the Plumber was simply a way to make fun of Obama, it was never really an insult to intelligence at all. Obama coined the term as I recall, or maybe I'm just mistaken.

Either way, you're wrong. The modern Republic party does not hold intelligence and education in contempt, and no amount of you saying so will make anyone believe it. I will concede that certain key Republicans seem to want to play that card though we all know it's BS to get votes, and I sincerely apologize for the conservative party ever loosing its footing so far as to even conceive of the notion.

Since Republicans became the party of fundy religious nuts means they hold education and intelligence in contempt by default.

 

[Thump553]

My father was a scientist and held several patents. He spent his entire career in private industry. He was about as rock-ribbed a Republican as they come until the GOP went off on its "family values"/enforce "morality" by legislation kick of the last decade or two, then he walked away from political involvement altogether.

I worked a few summers in his lab and got to know most of his co-workers quite well. All were uniformally scandalized that I had become a registered Democrat, even if it was a reaction to Dick Nixon.

BTW this trend may not be limited to scientists. I attended a speech by my state's Secretary of the State and she stated her records show that in 2008 only 11% of new voters state-wide registered Republican (to be fair, historically at least half the voters in my state register independent, without a party affliation). The GOP seems to be hell bent on becoming a minor fringe party.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

Originally posted by: themusgrat

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
Who was labeling whom "professorial" as a derogatory term last presidential election? Explain why Sarah Palin is so popular. Or Joe the Plumber. I can go on and on. I stand by my statement, there is example after example open hostile contempt towards intelligence and education and applauding mediocrity and near complete retardation on the part of the right.

Fine, I can play this game. I didn't follow the last election closely, I'll be honest, after McCain sold out to the far right wing there was no point. I'd assume McCain made the "professional" remark. He was largely an idiot in the campaign, I'll assume that :shocker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: he said stupid things to try to get votes. I'm assuming he thought much the same as you, that most people were too dumb to see through it, and see how well that worked out for him.

Joe the Plumber was simply a way to make fun of Obama, it was never really an insult to intelligence at all. Obama coined the term as I recall, or maybe I'm just mistaken.

Either way, you're wrong. The modern Republic party does not hold intelligence and education in contempt, and no amount of you saying so will make anyone believe it. I will concede that certain key Republicans seem to want to play that card though we all know it's BS to get votes, and I sincerely apologize for the conservative party ever loosing its footing so far as to even conceive of the notion.

PROFESSORIAL. Is it coincidence that twice now people defending the right have made that mistake? Republicans for years have behaved like juvenile punks in high school who would demean and harass smart kids because they were smart. BarrySotero was pretty kind to have further proven that point here. And it's pretty clear no amount of anything will make the right believe anything they don't want to. That's sort of what this thread is hitting all around.

 

[themusgrat]

Originally posted by: surfsatwerk
Since some Republicans were stupid enough to see what GWB did when he took the world by storm on the feathers of extreme right wingers and thought to do the same means nothing

I fixed it for you.

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Who is going to apologize for the liberals?

Fine, I'll take the blame for both sides. Now can we all get along?

 

[hellod9]

When you have a political party that refuses to acknowledge evolution, which is the basis of modern Biological Science...

When you have a political party that actively spreads disinformation about global warming...

When you have members of that party actively fighting to BAN the teaching of evolution in schools...and winning...

When you have a political party that claims religious philosophy should be taught in science classes...

Or that is on the wrong side of the stem cell issue...

Or that cut funding to scientific research drastically over the last eight years (oh, except for military research)...

DOES IT MAKE SENSE NOW?

NEED I GO ON?

 

[themusgrat]

Originally posted by: Gonad the Barbarian
PROFESSORIAL. Is it coincidence that twice now people defending the right have made that mistake? Republicans for years have behaved like juvenile punks in high school who would demean and harass smart kids because they were smart. BarrySotero was pretty kind to have further proven that point here. And it's pretty clear no amount of anything will make the right believe anything they don't want to. That's sort of what this thread is hitting all around.

Oops My bad, but in the argument I made, you can easily switch it in place of professional. It was still apparently some argument made by retards who couldn't make fun of someone else being smart other than to simply make fun of it. And it's still not something that you should apply to the whole party. Barry is super retarded I agree.

 

[Drako]

Originally posted by: senseamp

Originally posted by: Drako

Originally posted by: senseamp

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
Perhaps most college science professors are liberal, but that's been understood since the '60s. Check out the engineering population though; based on personal experience, I would say 90%+ are conservative.

What are you talking about? Come to Silicon valley, 90% liberal engineers here.

LOL, what part of Silicon valley do you live in. I would say it's closer to 75% conservative, 25% liberal.

Really, go to google or apple campus and do a poll.

LOL, I'll let you go ahead and do that, and you can report back to me.

 

[JSt0rm]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu

Originally posted by: BoberFett
Way to cherry pick data.

Only 55% call themselves Democrats.

So a fairly large percentage of scientists understand that both parties have their heads up their collective asses.

So 55% vs 6% and you don't see that as an alarming gap... Cherry picking doesn't begin to describe it.

lol really. Thats a huge difference but understandable considering the repugs commitment to knuckle draggers.

 

[themusgrat]

Originally posted by: hellod9
When you have a political party that refuses to acknowledge evolution, which is the basis of modern Biological Science...

Some do, some adapt to the scientific theory, and some outright embrace it. The theory is in no way perfect, it might be wrong to say that all of "biological science" is based on it.

When you have a political party that actively spreads disinformation about global warming...

As did many on the left. Wasn't it NASA who just started predicting a global cooldown in the next few hundred years? Oh right, conservatives, all of them. Fact is, there always has been global climate change, and although nobody really knows to what extent humans affect it, we know it's very, very little.

When you have members of that party actively fighting to BAN the teaching of evolution in schools...and winning...

Some people don't agree with it, what can I say, also if you look back at evolution as taught in the 90s, it's different, and some claims those high school science books made have been proven and universally recognized to be lies. Specifically, transition fossils.

When you have a political party that claims religious philosophy should be taught in science classes...

Some do, they're wrong about it being in public school, but parents have the right to decide what their kids learn.

Or that is on the wrong side of the stem cell issue...

There are very few informed conservatives that are really against stem cell research. Lots are against harvesting fetuses for the stuff, but there's more than enough stem cells available in other venues for the research to be done. I'm sorry people don't read enough of the internets to know that.

Or that cut funding to scientific research drastically over the last eight years (oh, except for military research)...

No idea what you're talking about, I thought we were trying to cut our spending all across the board...

 

[Mr. Lennon]

Originally posted by: BarrySotero

Originally posted by: NaughtyGeek
Scientists tend to be dreamers, nuff said.

Who are very prone to psychosis - a correlation easily seen in the artistic community that's also liberal at this time (hasn't always been that way).

BarrySotero rowing along in his failboat as always today.

Sorry Barry, but you are the psychotic one. Your are a delusional republican extremist. Thankfully you are a dieing breed.