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Old 12-22-2010, 02:48 PM
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Apparently this is the survey on which this thread is based.

http://people-press.org/report/?pageid=1549

It's quite involved, draw your own conclusions.

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I had forgotten about the specifics of how Bush put a lid on science. The man was truly dangerous and too stupid to realize it. What a hand puppet he was.
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Old 12-22-2010, 02:54 PM
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Or compared to how many watch neither FOX nor MSNBC?
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Old 12-22-2010, 03:23 PM
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A) gather all your money into one place, then:

B) send it to a global warming scientist.

Otherwise, you're an idiot neanderthal. I mean republican

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Old 12-22-2010, 03:23 PM
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Or compared to how many watch neither FOX nor MSNBC?
What did Jefferson? say, "The man who reads nothing at all is better informed than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

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Old 12-22-2010, 03:25 PM
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A) gather all your money into one place, then:

B) send it to a global warming scientist.

Otherwise, you're an idiot neanderthal. I mean republican

Pete
Damn Pete, you make it sound like it's all about money!!!

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Old 12-22-2010, 10:38 PM
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In politics, the true test of science is not empirical evidence, but political correctness (viz., the “popular will”); for what the many say is so will be so, whether it is so or not. And, to a large extent, it has been politics - and not science - that has dominated our thinking. (One would think that the earth is flat!) Apparently, there is no limit to our stupidity.
Perception trumps reality.

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