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Buckeye_Democrat

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3. Only 6% of American scientists were Republican...

Reply to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

Wed Mar 26, 2025, 08:30 PM

Mar 2025

... in 2009. It has to be even lower now!

You're correct. With the GOP even more authoritarian, anti-intellectual and anti-truth, there's far less chance that people devoted to learning will want to be here.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-politics-and-religion/
"Most scientists identify as Democrats (55%), while 32% identify as independents and just 6% say they are Republicans."

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We can expect an accelerating brain drain--and talented academics who will no longer come to America. [View all] IrishBubbaLiberal Mar 2025 OP

once again, it will harm my country yet I cannot blame them Skittles Mar 2025 #1

PhD scientists have put in tremendous work and hardship to get where they are. Irish_Dem Mar 2025 #2

Only 6% of American scientists were Republican... Buckeye_Democrat Mar 2025 #3

How can America be great if we don't have the best thinkers and innovators? tulipsandroses Mar 2025 #4