America Losing Its Global Dominance In Science

[Ban Kenobi]

It doesn't help that Republicans have spent 30 years waging a war on science, telling dullards science is evil, and trying to politicize science funding out of Congress.

lol wut

[Dinner]

This is what you fail to understand: The anti-science people own and control the Republican Party. It does what ever they say. Yes, there are a few stupid hippies who believe in magic crystals in the Democratic Party but they are laughed at and made fun of, they are not in control of the party, so when you claim the two parties are even remotely alike you are simply demonstrating that you are a fool who is unable to comprehend, even the slightest amount, the concept of scale. You're just trying and failing to claim 10=90 because they're not the same no matter how much you lie and pretend they are.

[DinoDoc]

By constantly politicizing basic science research and putting boundries on it, for instance Republicans prevent funding of climate change or any other hot topic, they make the efficiency of research less.

Speaking of someone not worth listening to...

[Dinner]

Yes, I agree, you're worthless and a waste of space.

[Ban Kenobi]

This is what you fail to understand: The anti-science people own and control the Republican Party. It does what ever they say. Yes, there are a few stupid hippies who believe in magic crystals in the Democratic Party but they are laughed at and made fun of, they are not in control of the party, so when you claim the two parties are even remotely alike you are simply demonstrating that you are a fool who is unable to comprehend, even the slightest amount, the concept of scale. You're just trying and failing to claim 10=90 because they're not the same no matter how much you lie and pretend they are.

This has nothing to do with information presented in the video I posted. The "anti-science" people who control the Republican Party apparently don't hate science funding.

[DinoDoc]

Yes, I agree, you're worthless and a waste of space.

Are you actually resorting to Rubber and glue analogies? Are you a child?

[DinoDoc]

This has nothing to do with information presented in the video I posted. The "anti-science" people who control the Republican Party apparently don't hate science funding.

Oerdin is always wrong, BK. It's not a hard concept to grasp. He'll never admit it but he's very much like Ben in that regard.

[Dinner]

This has nothing to do with information presented in the video I posted. The "anti-science" people who control the Republican Party apparently don't hate science funding.

Wrong. It's an unavoidable fact no matter how much you wish to avoid it. One side is completely controlled by the anti-science faction of their party while the other has marginalized the anti-science faction of their party and it isn't in control of jack ****. Trying to claim those two are the same is just false.

[Dinner]

Oerdin is always wrong, BK. It's not a hard concept to grasp. He'll never admit it but he's very much like Ben in that regard.

More correctly DD is always a ****. This is the universal truth.

[Uncle Sparky]

Please provide the math to prove who is a bigger ****, Oerdin or DD. A panel will be convened to test the theorems.

[notyoueither]

One Quatloo on the winner.

[Patroklos]

Science funding is not the metric you should use to rest determine the level of science output, only an idiotike Oerdin would use such an unscientific metric. You can squander it or multiply it's effectivness based on how you spend it.

[Dauphin]

Pop quiz. Name a Chinese Nobel prize winner in science.

[DinoDoc]

One Quatloo on the winner.

Oerdin is always wrong.

Eureka! Tea partiers know science
By: Tal Kopan
October 17, 2013 01:53 PM EST

A finding in a study on the relationship between science literacy and political ideology surprised the Yale professor behind it: Tea party members know more science than non-tea partiers.

Yale law professor Dan Kahan posted on his blog this week that he analyzed the responses of more than 2,000 American adults recruited for another study and found that, on average, people who leaned liberal were more science literate than those who leaned conservative.

However, those who identified as part of the tea party movement were actually better versed in science than those who didn’t, Kahan found. The findings met the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor said.

Kahan wrote that not only did the findings surprise him, they embarrassed him.

“I’ve got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected I’d be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension,” Kahan wrote.

“But then again, I don’t know a single person who identifies with the tea party,” he continued. “All my impressions come from watching cable tv — & I don’t watch Fox News very often — and reading the ‘paper’ (New York Times daily, plus a variety of politics-focused Internet sites like Huffington Post and POLITICO). I’m a little embarrassed, but mainly, I’m just glad that I no longer hold this particular mistaken view.”

While Kahan cautioned against thinking the results can be used to explain deep ideological fights over climate change and other politically relevant science, and he said the results wouldn’t change his negative views of the tea party, he did say he will no longer make assumptions about the level of knowledge on his opponents’ side.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.c...6-BCBAC29F18A8

[Kidlicious]

This is what you fail to understand: The anti-science people own and control the Republican Party. It does what ever they say. Yes, there are a few stupid hippies who believe in magic crystals in the Democratic Party but they are laughed at and made fun of, they are not in control of the party, so when you claim the two parties are even remotely alike you are simply demonstrating that you are a fool who is unable to comprehend, even the slightest amount, the concept of scale. You're just trying and failing to claim 10=90 because they're not the same no matter how much you lie and pretend they are.

Just because you're against climate change research doesn't mean you're against science. Try again.