Oh so puzzling. Answer sought about the number of Republican scientists?

[Mira]

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[liberal N proud]

1. It is puzzling

[Eddie Haskell]

15. It's logic,

Scientists can't get their brains to accept the illogical.

[1-Old-Man]

2. Could it be that faith-based-science is generally seen in the same light as black-magic?

[hobbit709]

3. Very good question.

[reformist2]

4. Smart Republicans tend toward big-buck careers, certainly not ones that have non-monetary rewards.

Just thinking aloud, but I think it's a pretty good first guess.

[hobbit709]

5. There are "smart" republicans?

[reformist2]

7. :)

[Coyotl]

10. Three percent of Republicans are smart. Scientist have no explanation why

so many smart people are Republicans except that their parents were Republicans too.

Once in a while smart people are born to ordinary Republicans. This gives scientists hope for the future

[modrepub]

16. But

what about all those millions of dollars the global warming scientists are grabbing? Surely these monetary rewards would be large enough to attracts hoards of republican scientists, right?

[TalkingDog]

18. If "smart" is a money maker I know a lot of people who are under paid.

Smart is a wiggly term, but I assume you are talking IQ. High IQ people, according to studies like one from Ohio State University show that "There is no relationship between IQ scores and net wealth," said economist Jay Zagorsky, who conducted the study.

I know a number of people who are in MENSA (the smart club) and some of them.... well, let me illustrate. A few of them were riding together to come to my house for dinner. They ran out of gas...... twice.

Now, a smart person may (or may not) have a flair for business, but it is more likely that an orientation toward the self and gain for the self and a lack of empathy towards others is a much better indicator of who will be successful in business.

(Case in point, did you notice that Bill Gates only started giving his money away after he got married? Before then, it never occurred to him that he'd never be able to spend, use or get rid of all that money. His wife pointed it out to him.)

[reformist2]

23. Good points - I just meant to distinguish those who do well academically vs. those who don't.

By no means did I intend to make it sound like "smart" repubs are better than "dumb" repubs!

[Thor_MN]

6. How many Republican scientists can you fit on the head of a pin?

All of them.

[Lochloosa]

9. :)

[Thor_MN]

40. :)

[TalkingDog]

19. Ya know... it really doesn't take a whole lot of prompting to link the terms

Republican with pin and head. ....Just sayin'

[Thor_MN]

41. :)

Nicely done.

[spanone]

8. k&r...

[LisaLynne]

11. I used to work with a couple of Republican, conservative scientists.

One actually was something of a religious nut to boot. So, from this small sampling, I'll tell you that it was economics, basically, for both of them. They felt they were the best and the brightest and needed to make sure they kept their money away from the unwashed masses, such as women, people of color, people who weren't born to already rich families. However, both of these guys were at the end of the their careers and beyond retirement, so they were relics from a past era, IMHO.

[Jackpine Radical]

17. My old geology professor was a Republican.

Of course that was in the mid-60's, and he had already gotten rich finding oil in Alaska for Standard Oil or somebody.

[NightWatcher]

20. Using "biblical dating" we've determined this trilobite fossil to be 26 years old

....And the dinosaurs that were in the area were nothing more than lizards that didn't stop growing. (My brother actually "believes" that dinosaurs were around a few thousand years ago and are really lizards that didn't stop growing)

[Jackpine Radical]

37. I'm pretty sure my old geology prof accepted evolution,

and even round-earth theory.

[Orrex]

12. "Republican scientist" is like "carnivorous vegan."

[cpwm17]

13. Do you have a link for that claim? n/t

[Mira]

29. No

but I bet a scientific study would come close to confirming it.
It's mostly a dig - with sarcasm and frustration- at the paucity of intellect that is in use by our Republican brethren.

[One_Life_To_Give]

36. Slate Article/Pew Poll

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2010/12/lab_politics.html

Went looking myself. Would be interesting to see a more detailed breakdown by Field and Degree. In my own experience Engineering has been more conservative than that.

[Half-Century Man]

14. Economics and Eugenics

The keystones of fascist race mongering AKA Republicanism

[Martin Eden]

21. In the teabagger brain this is proof positive ...

... that scientists are part of the vast liberal conspiracy of lies.

(I meant this as a joke, but I'm pretty sure that's what most of them would conclude from such a statistic)

[mathematic]

22. The D Scientists are the third wayers despised on DU

The poll referenced by the graphic is of AAAS members, not all scientists. (It was 55%/6% D/R).

These democrats are your usual gmo supportin', public school reformin', scientific consensus followin' types. So go ahead and use this graphic as a bludgeon to show that republicans are anti-science but know that the democratic scientists would be branded insufficiently pure DINOs (or worse! corporate shills) by DU "democrats".

[loudsue]

25. That's a nice little hate-filled rant.

I'm sorry you hate DU so much.

[mike_c]

28. I'm one of those democratic scientist "DINOS"....

[denbot]

39. Enjoy your stay. N/T

[mathematic]

42. Attaboy!

Good job ferreting out another one!

I figure somebody ought to commend you for such a job well done.

What gave it away? Was it my use of data from the survey (the breakdown between D/R)? Or was it my use of information about the survey (the polled were all AAAS members)? Or perhaps it was my use of information about the organization (the AAAS actually issued a statement against GMO labeling laws)? Maybe it was because I looked up the survey behind the info-graphic ("helpfully" not included in the OP) and actually added some facts and, yes, some site-specific commentary, to the discussion.

Thanks but please spare me the back-slapping we-heart-science BSing. Left leaning contrarians, who form a seemingly increasing portion of DU, couldn't care less about science. Over and over again I see the voices on DU presenting the scientific consensus on certain issues get shouted down. God bless 'em, they keep trying.

[wtmusic]

24. Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

[starroute]

26. A certain number of scientists are libertarians

It appeals to their belief that the world can be run logically.

There are also areas of science that are still basically stuck in the 19th century. They involve close observation and classification and don't have much to say about how nature actually works. Chemistry, for example, can be carried on in that narrow-focus way -- which may be why Monsanto is such a menace. I would bet that Monsanto is just full of Republican scientists.

[tsnew]

27. thomas massie

Thomas massie (R-KY) is an engineer who went to MIT. I remember him bc he was on a couple episodes of "junkyard wars" back in the day when TLC still had educational shows.

[Dalai_1]

30. K&R n/t

[Gothmog]

31. This is so true and is so sad

Republicans do not believe in science

[Rex]

32. The Republican mind does not allow for concrete or abstract thought.

Only Hate and Fear are the lords and rulers of the GOP brain. Most still live in 2-D.

[PowerToThePeople]

33. I do not buy it

In my experience, there are more Rs than Ds. But, my work environment has mostly been corporate. So, people are voting for their best interest in propping up the corporations.

[ThoughtCriminal]

34. One problem with the figure

is that I think it's based on an unscientific survey. Which would be sort of ironic.

[Avalux]

35. 'Scientist' is a broad term.

One can get a science degree of some sort from a christian university....but is it really science?

[indepat]

38. Hopefully that 6% are not among the climate-change and/or round-earth deniers. And

having much more than a minimal education and presumed more than a modicum of common sense, how could their politics be so fucked-up?

[Niceguy1]

43. any career minded

Person isn't going to go public with their beliefs I'd they differ from the mainstream, epecially in a profession where your success can be based on peer review, and to some extent reputation. Ones politican beliefs isn't dependant on intelligence.