Title: 6% Of Scientist Are Republicans Source:
TYT URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACWtrfbk9ic Published:Jul 10, 2009 Author:The Young Turks Post Date:2011-04-22 10:33:09 by lucysmom Keywords:Liberal Scientists, Reality based community Views:38873 Comments:57
Take heart, 9% of scientists describe themselves as Conservative.
This poll would appear to be quite dubious as to what they actually found.
First, there are a lot of things that are called "science" which really aren't, and a lot of people who call themselves scientists who don't really practice science. The vast majority of this category tend to be airhead liberals.
OTOH, just about every engineer I know is a conservative, the difference being that you can't just pull things out of your ass like these so called scientists do.
Nothing there about who they consider scientists, although this pretty telling:
While scientists are generally upbeat about the state of their profession, they do see several obstacles to conducting high-quality basic research. As might be expected, by far the biggest impediment is a lack of funding