Science and American Politics

This stat on Republican scientists sounds about right, but that’s simply a result of the movement of the GOP to the ultra-right and its present-day radical anti-science position.

Go back 70 years and look at the demographics at that time.  I can’t find any studies on this, but let’s use common sense.  Remember the Cold War and the rational discussion that surrounded it?

Our respect for science was high, and our political ideologies played a far more  subservient role.

In some respects, the grand old days.