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Jazzns
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Message 92 of 124 (671688)
08-29-2012 12:22 PM
Reply to: Message 85 by Coyote
08-29-2012 12:44 AM


Republican scientists
I happen to work among many scientists. I could probably claim to be one myself although I don't because I only rarely am outputing research.
The people I work with represent many disciplines of science. We are not in academia although we often collaborate with academia. And I would wager that 2/3 to 3/4 of the people are conservative, or conservative leaning.
The point being, I just don't think you can paint with such a broad brush. I think one thing that is common is that scientists don't bullshit. They aren't politicians so often they wear their REAL opinions on their sleeves. Its easy to see conflict where there is no effort to sugar coat differences unlike in politics where it may be hard for an average low information person to notice the fact that Paul Ryan is bizarrely insane.

BUT if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes? Do we not see a fair creation prepared to receive us the instant we are born --a world furnished to our hands, that cost us nothing? Is it we that light up the sun; that pour down the rain; and fill the earth with abundance? Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on. Are these things, and the blessings they indicate in future, nothing to, us? Can our gross feelings be excited by no other subjects than tragedy and suicide? Or is the gloomy pride of man become so intolerable, that nothing can flatter it but a sacrifice of the Creator? --Thomas Paine

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