{"id":13629,"date":"2008-11-03T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T16:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/11\/03\/scientists-for-obama.html"},"modified":"2008-11-03T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T16:46:33","slug":"scientists_for_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/scientists_for_obama.html","title":{"rendered":"Scientists for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Palazzo examines why so many scientists are voting for Obama — or, in more cases, voting against conservatives. Bottom line: they attack scientists with “inconvenient truths” as pushy society-tinkering elitists, and trot out their own pet “think tanks” to provide rhetorical cover for their preferences.<\/p>\n

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What scientists see in the GOP is a culture that neglects professional opinions when constructing national policy, a political operation that seeks to poison our national discourse and an unbridled self-serving ideology that has led to economic turmoil and an uncertain future.<\/p>\n

From free-markets, to health care policy, to education, to the war in Iraq, to global warming, Scientists look at the GOP and see a commitment to an idea, right-wing ideology, despite reality itself might be telling us. And this is why almost all scientists are voting against the GOP ticket this election cycle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Interestingly, that ties into the Jeffrey Hart article<\/a> in terms of ideology trumping knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Palazzo examines why so many scientists are voting for Obama — or, in more cases, voting against conservatives. Bottom line: they attack scientists with “inconvenient truths” as pushy society-tinkering…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128456,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/when-you-dont-like-the-numbers-attack-the-scientists-generating-them.html","url_meta":{"origin":13629,"position":0},"title":"When you don't like the numbers, attack the scientists generating them","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Oct-15 7:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because, you know, Big Climate Change Science is clearly behind NOAA's revision of climate change data. 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