PrestonSturges wrote:Just wondering if you think science is an anticonservative conspiracy, or maybe it's just that conservatives hate science because they can't control it.
I think science is mostly the same across most disciplines. I think most scientists are trying to get the truth out, while advancing their own theory. I think it's hyper-competitive and petty at times as well. It's one of the reasons I got out - just too much BS involved in fighting for grants, publishing, and so on. Not enough pure science.
But for the most part the folks out there in science are motivated by a search for how things work.
There are a few areas of science that are contaminated by politics, where scientists set aside their scientific method training and endeavor to get results that they want. Climate science is one obvious example, given the deceit that was brought to light recently regarding the destroyed data, blacklisting, and so on.
I don't see any conspiracies in science other than by the climate scientists, who have already shown themselves to be untrustworthy.
Regarding "conservatives," I'm not sure how that's defined. The only conservative, as I understand that word, in politics is Ron Paul. Pretty much everyone else, including all 100 senators, I'd call something other than "conservative". Most I'd call socialist, many I'd call fascist. But none conservative.
Today's conservatives are yesterday's moderate liberals.
Regarding "hating" science, I'd say only the religious folks who don't like evolution, and a few Luddites here and there, hate science. That's not too many people in the U.S..