For a sampling of conservatism's dismal state today, check out this
Free Republic thread about my
article on scientists and Republicans. A consensus quickly formed there that the
Pew poll, showing only 6 percent of scientists to be Republicans, was distorted because it focused on government and academic scientists, not engineering types employed by industry. The Freepers failed to notice that the poll did a breakout of party affiliations among scientists by employment sector.
So there you have it -- a whopping
10 percent of industry-employed scientists are Republicans. Can such horrendous numbers be improved? Only if conservatism moves away from the dumbed-down, ears-closed, eyes-shut know-nothingism of, for instance,
Free Republic.
