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welcome back to the david adventure
welcome back to the fact that fell apart about science let's talk about evolution
i have a study here he study which says only six percent but scientists
identified themselves
as republicans
one hundred percent of republicans have no idea why this is true
this is that this is one of these things we've been talking about for a while
which is
why do so few scientists identify as republicans is it that
if you believe in science
by definition you are already not a republican and therefore you were
interested in going into those field or is it that people going into science are
basically divided in the same way that general population is in terms of
political leanings and once they've become science professionals whatever is
colloquium referred to as a scientist
they've stopped being republicans i think it's probably a combination of
both
definitely accommodation here
uh... we have a situation where
fifty five percent of scientists identifies democrats six percent as
republicans in the rest either
non-political independent of some kind
and i think it has to do really with who it's not about politics i really don't
believe that this is about politics i believe it's there is one party
that accepts scientific findings when there is a consensus
on everything from
global warming
to evolutionary theory
how do you and how don't you
prevent pregnancy
and the reality of life is not completely black and white is not
totally binary in the sense that
you are in there
uh... you have a world view that clearly is democratic or republican although on
some issues it certainly is but in this context in the context of science
we do have a very binary situation
democratic
politicians tend to be on the side of believing that
tax cuts on the rich
do not actually help the economy
that climate change exists and it very well may be connected to the activity of
human beings on this planet
that's uh... ***
does cause pregnancy doesn't that just get shut down in some way right and the
republican party has opposite believes it seems very binary to me where these
things are not open to opinion i guess though if you ask republicans about this
they would say all of those things have dissenting views yeah but they're the
extreme minority right i mean that that's that's how i would counter
exactly
and uh... i mean days
this intelligence factor into this
we've talked about that i mean it's not who how do you buy what you put in all
of these back this together
well since we're not talking about the general population were just talking
about scientists assume that we're talking about like hard scientists like
biologists in kamusta na all academic straight
we're talking about climatologist for talking about archaeologist and i think
where there is it's a pretty broad scope i think that you could easily find
within those groups uh... a lot of people who believe in low taxes and
fiscal conservatism in the even
potentially on some social issues they're pretty conservative views but
they just perceive correctly i think that data republican party is against
uh... just the scientific consensus because they wanna appeal to a very anti
intellectual base of voters that increasingly are almost all other voters
and the right wing would do what louis they would basically attacker believes
his partisan
right i mean is that the defense that's usually again
yeah and that doesn't really how far does that really go right i mean how far
he brought more people really believe that the difference of opinion on a
ninety nine to one basis on climate change
is simply
the nine nine percent is totally parts and i don't know people who think it's
all part of some giant global scheme
to work to do what i don't know with it's it's a scheme maybe sell yeah