Angry: That awkward moment when you get exactly what you voted for. "You are the DUMBEST smart person I have ever met"

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73. Any scientist working for a university should know better.

This is my career as well, and it is very, VERY, obvious who is more anti-science, and who doesn't give a shit about science at their very best, and more often would destroy the whole enterprise for the in favor of religious edicts and propaganda.

Do science deniers exist on the left? Sadly, yeah. Has there been overreach in academia? Yeah, I think so.

But seriously... who's allies pushed "creation science"? Who's allies banned stem cell research because they mistook (single celled) fertilized eggs for neonates? Who damaged science by pushing us into budget sequestration in 2013, because "starving the beast" was what they wanted? Who has spent the last 30 years denying climate science because they don't like the conclusion?

As a scientist if you pay attention AT ALL, you ought to know who your friends are, and more importantly who they AREN'T.

So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to accumulation of knowledge ... and the advance of knowledge sooner or later undermines the traditional order. - Stanislav Andreski