Poll Shows Tea Party Doesn't Believe In Science

[matthewf]

[ladjf]

1. But they do believe in science.

Science is observing, studying and experimenting to learn how the world works. All animals acquire their knowledge through this process.

I believe that when the "tea baggers" proclaim that they "don't believe in science" they actually mean that they don't believe in any scientific findings that disagrees with their personal scientific processes. The problem is that academic sciences follow strict processes while people's individual styles of observation often slip off into the realm of subjective thinking, better known as "making it up".

Your average scientifically ignorant person has no compunctions about disagreeing with trained professionals in areas such as astronomy, meteorology, geology and many other Earth related sciences. One has to be massively ignorant to think that with no training whatsoever, they are knowledgeable enough to contradict professional scientists.

[panfluteman]

2. Hmmm - Interesting Stuff About Democrats!

The vast majority of them believe in manmade global warming, but are doing next to nothing to fight it. Some of them are even doing stuff to make it worse, much worse. The explanations for this are basically twofold:

1) The awesome power of greed and political donations from lobbyists and special interests to corrupt. Money addiction!
2) They have succumbed to a destructive subconscious death wish, or have lost all hope, 'cause the challenges are just too great.

After all, weren't a lot of people "living it up" and partying on the Titanic when it went down?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

3. It's because the Republicans have claimed anyone who believes in climate change is a commie...

Democrats freak out at that accusation because they are trying to assure Wall Street that they are good for Big Business.

That means Democrats can only talk about global warming as a new business that can be more profitable.

They present it as coal and oil is 20th century just as whale oil was 19th century so a smart investor should shift to wind and solar for the 21st century even if you don't believe in climate change.

The tactic makes people think those oil stocks are about as obsolete as this:

[jmowreader]

6. I have one of those, but mine is black

The only things that will survive a nuclear holocaust are cockroaches and Selectrics. And it comes in REAL handy for typing up purchase orders.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. Makes a great weapon against a burglar too if you can sneak up behind them with it.....

Although, to be honest, I prefer a cast iron skillet.

[jmowreader]

12. Now, that's funny

I went to the field once with the Canadian Army. We got to the first site, unpacked, and out came four Selectrics. Being an OLD time MI guy, I always believed you shouldn't take electric typewriters out of the office because they'd break - manuals in tactical situations only, please. The Canadians thought that too...but they, as we, always had troubles with their manuals breaking down after a few trips down a dirt road. Just on a whim they threw a Selectric in the truck one exercise ten years previous. It never broke. They'd been hauling the same machine to the woods for ten years straight and all it ever needed was routine cleaning. The other three came later, and they were just as good.

I think I just came up with the subject of this year's NaNoWriMo book...a post-apocalyptic tale of a world where the only mechanical information-processing device left is a blue Selectric, and what the Minders of the Ball had to do to keep it. The appropriate thing to do would be to write it on the Selectric, but NaNo demands word processor files.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. Have cloaked monks carry a box with the Holy Relic within and it's the damn little ball.

[sarchasm]

4. .. so what are YOU doing to combat man made global warming?

Please enlighten us.

[jamzrockz]

5. That is if

he believe is man made global warming.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. Pointing out the folks full of hot air.

[DeSwiss]

7. ....

[blkmusclmachine]

8. The Tea Party = The American Taliban

[world wide wally]

9. No surprise at all. They don't believe in math or grammar either.

[geretogo]

10. The tea party belongs with their family members in Afghanistan .