Six percent of scientists are Republicans

[Coyotl]

[JackN415]

1. Not high if you qualify "intelligent design" researchers as scientists

[daleanime]

4. If your including "intelligent design"....

you must be high.

[Buzz Clik]

2. That's funny.

But, about 30% of the scientists I know are Republicans.

[ZombieHorde]

5. There is no source for the number on the poster.

We don't even know which region the poster is describing. The world? A country? A state? A county? A middle school somewhere?

The 6% number could even just be made up for the sake of the joke.

[Buzz Clik]

6. You know that the knuckledraggers are all convinced that science is dominated by liberals...

... and that's why they don't trust evolution research, climate change, etc.

[TwilightZone]

7. Or it could be found in 30 seconds with Google

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/10/only-six-percent-of-scien_n_229382.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2010/12/lab_politics.html

[BlueToTheBone]

3. Really! I was surprised at the high number!

I thought it might be .5 to 1%! Science takes an open mind.

[Coyotl]

8. Me too. Only in the USA, I bet.

[BlueToTheBone]

9. Well, because this is a US political party

I'm guessing, yep in the US. But in other countries fundamentalists would be the same as our puker citizens.

[JackN415]

10. The sad side of this story is rationalism has been lost in US politics...

It's healthy to have 2 parties offering different solutions.
But both should be rational with respect non-political matter such as natural science and even social science (provided no Excel coding error).

The GoP used to have a rational faction. They have been Talibanized.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. How many of that 6% are geologists working for oil companies ? nt

[Coyotl]

12. BINGO!