New species formed : Homo Ignoramus

[ErikJ]

Study: Conservatives' Trust of Science Hits All Time Low

A sociologist at UNC-Chapel Hill says more people are moving to a conservative "anti-intellectual" ideology, and more people than ever are lumping scientific and political agendas together.

By JASON KOEBLER
March 29, 2012 RSS Feed Print
It's not just the vitriol surrounding this year's upcoming election: More conservatives than ever distrust science, according to a report released Thursday.

Just 35 percent of conservatives said they had a "great deal of trust in science" in 2010, a 28 percent decline since 1974, when 48 percent of conservatives—about the same percentage as liberals—trusted science. Liberal and moderate support for science has remained essentially flat since 1974, according to Gordon Gauchat, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He published his findings in the journal American Sociological Review.

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[Cleita]

1. I think you forgot the link to your article. n/t

[ErikJ]

2. Fixed it--Thanks to Norman Goldman

He's been going on about this throughout his show. Hilarious.

[d_r]

3. just some egghead

writing some nonsense in some "journal" probably wasting our tax dollars and trying to get more grant money to write this stupid crap.

[mindwalker_i]

4. Science involves tests, which often disprove the accepted beliefs of people

It makes sense that conservatives would dislike that. Studying species has shown evolution at work, contradicting conservatives' religious beliefs. But facts are true whether you believe them or not. It doesn't help that Republicans actively exploit that.