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Old 07-17-2021, 06:05 AM
 
Location: The Ozone Layer, apparently...
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I would have been totally with you on this even a year ago, but the recent woke infestation of top universities, even top scientific journals like Nature and JAMA, is very discouraging. It's as if they actually want to be mistrusted and create a partisan divide.
I was always a proponent of National Healthcare in the US. I thought it was something good, and couldn't understand how the allegedly best country in the world didn't offer it to its citizens.

I had no way to have foreseen the devastating effect it would have on Science, and the potential to inhibit personal freedoms, or I would have been deadset against it.
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Old 07-17-2021, 06:05 AM
 
Location: Japan
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"There didn’t used to be much of a partisan divide on this subject"

How old are YOU?

"The Gallup poll"

Sorry, gallop is a left leaning pollster.

Note Forbes did NOT provide a link to the actual poll.
Here is the actual poll. (It took about 15 seconds to find.)
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Old 07-17-2021, 06:40 AM
 
Location: NMB, SC
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I'd say in 1975 science was still science.

Today it's politics molding science to promote an agenda for the most part.
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Old 07-17-2021, 06:40 AM
 
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Republican party appears to be embracing the stupid. It's like a love affair with ignorance. I don't see how this is going to go well.
It's not meant to "go well."

It's meant to gum up the works.

The majority of American are not Republicans.

Republicans have used the electoral college, gerrymandering, purging voter rolls, vote suppression, the filibuster , ... to impose their will on the will of the majority.

This is just another quiver in their bow of strategies to impose their will on the majority of Americans.

Though the anti-science, anti-vaccination stance may seem nuts to the reasonable, to Republicans it makes perfect sense.
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Old 07-17-2021, 06:42 AM
 
Location: NMB, SC
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It's not meant to "go well."

It's meant to gum up the works.

The majority of American are not Republicans.

Republicans have used the electoral college, gerrymandering, purging voter rolls, vote suppression, the filibuster , ... to impose their will on the will of the majority.

This is just another quiver in their bow of strategies to impose their will on the majority of Americans.
And just what is "their will" ?
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Old 07-17-2021, 06:44 AM
 
Location: NMB, SC
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It's not meant to "go well."

It's meant to gum up the works.

The majority of American are not Republicans.

Republicans have used the electoral college, gerrymandering, purging voter rolls, vote suppression, the filibuster , ... to impose their will on the will of the majority.

This is just another quiver in their bow of strategies to impose their will on the majority of Americans.
The breakdown of political parties in the US (2020)
34% Ind
33% Dem
29% Rep

It's pretty much even across the board. Ind+Rep means the majority of people in the US are NOT Democrats.


https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...-and-religion/
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Old 07-17-2021, 06:45 AM
 
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My confidence in republicans has dropped 269%...
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Old 07-17-2021, 07:33 AM
 
Location: USA
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I'd say in 1975 science was still science.

Today it's politics molding science to promote an agenda for the most part.
It’s true.

For example, COVID-19 is a hoax invented by the government to impose socialism.

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Old 07-17-2021, 08:51 AM
 
Location: Morrison, CO
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Fantasy is a male, penis and all, claiming to be a female.

It's continually referring to a global surface temperature record that has never existed.

It's believing that whites, and only whites, are biologically predisposed to bigotry.

It's believing that life only begins when a baby can survive outside of the womb even though there is no possible way to clearly define when that is or how available/unavailable medical support determines the child's chances of survival.

Claiming these leftist articles of faith are examples of "science" doesn't make it so or make Republicans science deniers.
Spot on! Exactly!
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Old 07-18-2021, 04:59 AM
 
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Here is the actual poll. (It took about 15 seconds to find.)
Actually it is NOT the actual poll , just 1 question.

Again where is the methodology?
It DOES MATTER
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