tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post1600946079079184562..comments2023-09-22T06:15:59.092-03:00Comments on All life is family: Popular science is the 99.99% of us who DON'T read the journal NATUREMichael Marshall http://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-66537242991366078942012-08-30T06:47:40.290-03:002012-08-30T06:47:40.290-03:00Sorry Klem for my delay in replying ; I am out of...Sorry Klem for my delay in replying ; I am out of town for a funeral and not at my laptop.<br><br>I think 99% of pre war scientists - left and right -were Modernists , late Victorian Modernists.<br><br>The leaders in all aspects of life in 1940 were men born between 1870 and 1901, born at the birth cum height of Scientism.<br><br>Most of the basic scientists are democrat or left today - I know a geologist told me it is rare to see conservatives in his university sciences - he is one - he said they may be there but quiet to keep the peace.<br><br>Applied scientists might well still lean conservative or republican.<br><br>What has changed is that more and more basic scientists have rejected Modernity for something I call a sense of global commensality - a sense that humans are stuck into Nature not far above it.<br><br>I will look up that article.<br><br>I can tell you that while researching my book on wartime penicillin I discovered why remote Peoria got the NRRL research facility in 1939. FDR found 1930s university precincts always voted heavily republican so these research jobs were going to his rural small town supporters !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-44168478155224922562012-08-29T15:13:54.264-03:002012-08-29T15:13:54.264-03:00I recenetly read in Scientisifc American that over...I recenetly read in Scientisifc American that over 95% of scientists in academia vote Democrat, Republican scientists are rather rare nowadays.<br><br>klemAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-60973048959403891542012-08-29T15:10:04.146-03:002012-08-29T15:10:04.146-03:00I'm trying to follow your blog postings here a...I'm trying to follow your blog postings here and I'm still having trouble. Are you saying that the pre-war Skygods were scientists on the right and post-war earthlings are scientists on the left?<br><br><br>"..widely reported in the UK Guardian newspaper that Tasmania is now seeing tropical fish thanks to human climate change.."<br><br>Deniers look at tropical fish in a new place as evidence of climate change only, it is not evidence that CO2 is the cause. <br><br>klem<br><br>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com