"Scientists leave GOP due to attitudes toward science"

[applegrove]

Scientists leave GOP due to attitudes toward science

By Judy Fahys | The Salt Lake Tribune


http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/56795477-90/science-scientists-gop-http.html.csp

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Barry Bickmore, a professor of geology at Brigham Young University and onetime Republican convention delegate in crimson-red Utah County in the nation’s reddest state, has pondered the issue at length. He contends his party is increasingly ruled by zealots and a demand for "ideological purity" that turns off scientists.

He says most examples are in the environmental sciences. And he points to the time in 2009 when majority-party Republicans in the Utah Capitol put climate-science doubters on a pedestal — while rejecting the mainstream scientist view about the danger global warming poses and even taking a beef about a Utah State University physicist to the university president.

"Scientists just don’t get those people," he says of Republicans who adhere to party orthodoxy about scientific questions on climate change, evolution and other hot-button issues. "They [in the GOP] are driving us away, people like me."

He points to the 6 percent statistic from a 2009 Pew poll, and wondered aloud if any other voting group offered lower GOP support.



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[Skittles]

1. they are just now realizing the GOP is filled with the willfully ignorant?

it's hardly something new

[applegrove]

2. More for the Democratic big tent. Now if we could just get corporations out of universities.

[etherealtruth]

7. "He points to the 6 percent statistic from a 2009 Pew poll,

... and wondered aloud if any other voting group offered lower GOP support."

94% of them apparently knew this ... I guess 6% of them are just slow

[longship]

3. Like scientist fleeing Germany in the 1930's.

The Republican Party is an ideological, theocratic monster, gobbling up any rational, logical, secular thought in their way.

How could anybody devoted to science support what is nothing short of the promotion of abject ignorance?

It boggles my mind. If they gain power again, the world will be in much bigger trouble than it is. Fortunately, people are waking up.

[Uncle Joe]

4. If this brain drain continues, the Republicans won't be able to breathe.

Thanks for the thread, applegrove.

[busterbrown]

5. What the hell did they see in GOP in the first place?

[frogmarch]

6. You beat me to it.

I was going to say the very same thing!

Great minds think alike.

[busterbrown]

9. I’ll go one better.

The GOP has always been about

Cutting Taxes
Providing the Military with unlimited funding
Providing minimal aid to the less fortunate
Fighting against a woman’s right to choose
Supporting Church doctrine..
Fighting anything which prevents the spread of Democracy.

How the hell were they able to remain viable for all these years?.

The one percent and control of the media...

And of course, support of Scientists which says it all..

[Initech]

8. From the "obvious conclusion is obvious" file.