Perhaps the most significant finding: "Thirty-six percent (36%) believe that, most of the time, scientists’ research findings are motivated by a desire to advance their own careers. Only 32% say that they mostly rely on the best scientific evidence. Twenty-seven percent (27%) believe that political views of the scientists generally influence their work."
https://ballotpedia.org/Scott_Rasmussen%27s_Number_of_the_Day_for_August_21,_2017
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Pawn ago
we'll see about that goy, fire up the hurricane machine!
TomThomas ago
What's with the rampant anti-Semitism on Voat? Seriously, I've been away. When did this happen?
Dortex ago
It's a function of Voat's demographics. Voat isn't your first choice. You come here when Eddit bans you for not being PC enough. Now you've got people trying to be as inflammatory as they can out of sheer spite. The same types also happen to partake in the kind of right-leaning science denial you see in OP's post.
TomThomas ago
No reddit sub banned me, it's just a ridiculously immature experience, and increasing so.
But I take your point. It's unfortunate that mature dialog cannot be had without extremist and psychotic infiltration; on both sides.
freedomite ago
Better a day as a zealot than a thousand years a moderate.
TomThomas ago
Yes, zealots have only historically accomplished good. /s
freedomite ago
Yes, moderates have only historically accomplished anything of value. /s
TomThomas ago
I'm not sure why the /s. I should hardly have to enumerate the many many examples of zealots and fundamentalists throughout history and the humanitarian atrocity in their wake. Perhaps you could qualify your assertion that "moderates" do more evil with real examples?
CyborgCuttlefish ago
moderates don't even have a footnote in history.