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(9,494 posts) Sun Oct 20, 2013, 08:05 PM Oct 2013

A Yale professor's study show Teabaggers have slightly more knowledge of science.... [View all]

Last edited Sun Oct 20, 2013, 08:57 PM - Edit history (2)

than other groups. Proving once and for all that the teaparty are MORONS.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/tea-party-science-98488.html

A bunch of privileged, white, middle class men who are lucky enough to get a good education but too stupid to believe what they learned.

It just goes to show...you can give a Jack Ass an education but you cannot make him think.
http://publicreligion.org/research/2011/09/climate-change-evolution-2012/#.UmQ-o_y3sYE.email
The chart below clearly shows that the Tea party members do not believe in science fact.

<a href=".html" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0" alt=" photo PRRI-EvolutionClimatechange_zps908a0846.jpg"/></a>

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A Yale professor's study show Teabaggers have slightly more knowledge of science.... [View all] Walk away Oct 2013 OP

Did you mean less? And is the link right? rainy Oct 2013 #1

I added some links... Walk away Oct 2013 #3

I suspect that quite a few participating in the survey answered opposite of brewens Oct 2013 #11

At first, I thought WTF when I looked at that chart. Curmudgeoness Oct 2013 #2

So what is your doctorate in? whistler162 Oct 2013 #4

I don't have a doctorate. Did I imply that I did? Walk away Oct 2013 #6

The chart says exactly the opposite of the OP. Coyotl Oct 2013 #5

I'm sorry it's hard to understand. That is my point. Walk away Oct 2013 #9

The 3R's. They know the answers expected in a test. Memorization. Tigress DEM Oct 2013 #12

Yep. And that is a major part of the reason... YoungDemCA Oct 2013 #14

But there is a certain intelligence to knowing both sides of the argument. Tigress DEM Oct 2013 #15

can't expose the "common" folk to "dangerous ideas" like critical thinking, etc. BelgianMadCow Oct 2013 #16

Haha, thanks! YoungDemCA Oct 2013 #18

One study does not prove anything. 4bucksagallon Oct 2013 #7

"Nonetheless, there is reason to believe that strict right-wing ideology Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2013 #20

I do know older people who got advanced degrees a long time ago treestar Oct 2013 #8

Now that makes perfect sense. Turbineguy Oct 2013 #10

What a biased load of crap seattle15 Oct 2013 #13

The only reason Tea Party supporters might score above average is because of SES YoungDemCA Oct 2013 #17

That's a very interesting blog (Prof. Kahan seems to object to calling it a "study"), petronius Oct 2013 #19

...than a gerbil....on acid. nt Wounded Bear Oct 2013 #21