Quote Originally Posted by Rogar View Post
The Gallop Poll I found did indeed align conservatives as cool skeptics and liberals as concerned believers. I don't remember the numbers and how strongly it correlates. If I'm reading you right, your saying that the scientists from the most respectable academic institutes all over the world, many of them independent of each other, are corruptible and have colluded to a false conclusion to benefit the politicians, and additionally have ignored obvious possibilities of why they might be wrong? I could see that for a smaller percentage than 97% or more. Or I might have misunderstood.
No, you didn't misunderstand, although you may have possibly misinterpreted. I do believe that many researchers are corruptible, as their conclusions are susceptible to the influence of grants. Collusion isn't so much to benefit politicians as it is to receive funding from a political apparatus which requires a specific conclusion. I also believe that contrary opinions have a lesser chance of being presented in peer reviewed journals than Condoleezza Rice has of being universally welcomed to speak at Rutgers. Academia doesn't have a stellar reputation for diversity of opinion.