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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gazillions ago
Read it. It said they believe scientists are motivated by a desire to advance their own careers. Being anti global warming has caused real scientists nothing but grief and hindered their careers. Snide comments from idiots that desperately want to sound smart wasn't the worst of it. Since this bullshit started politicians & their backers have built their careers on selling global warming. No one against it advanced their careers.
plagueship ago
talk about mental gymnastics, so Oil companies don't try to influence the debate at all, even though they stand to lose billions of dollars, whereas scientists are skewing all the data all the time to "advance their own careers".
It's not like they lose their jobs if they discover A instead of B.
They definitely lose their jobs though if they fake results for A instead of B.
gazillions ago
You've replaced religion with leftist science. Talk about mental gymnastics, you think leftist science is unimpeachable, yet any other science is partisan and therefore polluted. You support nothing but your own idea of moral superiority as a political base. Freak.
plagueship ago
Since when is science "leftist"?
Both sides of the political spectrum can use science, seem to remember the Nazis were fairly big on it as were the communists.
They only thing that provably doesn't work, is religion.
When you are sitting on the roof of your home after the last hurricane, would you rather see a rescue helicopter or have a church full of people muttering to themselves ?
gazillions ago
Where did you get the idea that Christians don't fly helicopters for search and rescue? They invented the helicopter and search & rescue.
gazillions ago
No. You are choosing partisan left science. It's paid for by specifically leftist interests. It's chosen by specifically leftist interested parties.