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If you think that, then you are a moron. I know many highly acclaimed scientists, including at least one Nobel Laureate, who voted for Trump.

Cool story bro.

Anyone who supports the explicitly anti-science Trump administration - for whatever reason - has zero credibility when it comes to opining on the validity of scientific studies, or really anything.

Voting to kill children with preventable diseases is kind of a credibility destroyer.
 
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Don't know if you've noticed, but he's fired a lot people. Race has nothing to to with it.

Don’t know if you’ve noticed, but he’s overwhelming replacing the people he’s fired with unqualified, incompetent white people.

If you’ve got a theory for why all these unqualified, incompetent white people keep getting these jobs they didn’t earn, feel free to share.
 
Again, anyone who supports "men can have babies" has zero credbility. That's how this works, right?

Now all you have to do is find someone who claimed that or expressed support for that as a political platform and you’ll have yourself quite the devastating zinger.
 
We might be living in a simulation.
We might.

Sometimes people lie about who they really voted for in order to avoid conflict. They will state that they support a candidate, yet secretly vote against them because nobody will ever know. The entire point of a secret ballot is that nobody knows how you vote.

Just because someone told you they voted one way doesn't mean that they actually did. And I don't care if they're an esteemed scientist or a Nobel prize winner - as though that somehow makes them a paragon of truth. People lie, especially there are consequences for not doing so.
 
If the question at hand is about whether some anonymous scientist voted Republican - it's pretty much a given that there are MAGA scientists. I'm not sure why that's even worth questioning. Of course there are. Much like there were Nazi scientists, despite somewhat similar attitudes towards science there.

Overall, scientists overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party - likely something like 9 to 1 on a quick check (because, simply speakingly, Republicans have been increasingly hostile to science, intellectuals, and so on), but, due to the sheer force of numbers, that certainly does leave leeway to seize onto outliers. That tendency to seize onto outliers is reasonably likely to make the outliers more likely to be "prestigious" for that matter, as right-wingers seek to parade them and give them personal incentives to say the things they they want claimed.

Going a bit further, I have a Tea Party friend who is a good chemist. He fairly certainly voted for Trump. His opinions on stuff outside of chemistry are often impacted by such bastions of credibility as Zerohedge, though, and he seems to consistently regurgitate right-wing BS that falls apart when subjected to even superficial real scrutiny. That includes more general science related claims, unfortunately, which very much does impact his overall credibility. Is he anti-science? Both yes and no for different inflections. On the one hand, he likes chemistry! On the other, he chose the path of sabotaging science in general and has often pushed fallacies that undermine science.
 
If you think that, then you are a moron. I know many highly acclaimed scientists, including at least one Nobel Laureate, who voted for Trump.
Having a Nobel Prize doesn't grant someone authority outside their field of expertise. Pauling was famously a crank, for example. They might have voted for Trump but if they are still happy with his letting RFK run amok, they are against very basic science. It literally doesn't take a brain surgeon to understand that vaccination is beneficial to public health.
 
Having a Nobel Prize doesn't grant someone authority outside their field of expertise. Pauling was famously a crank, for example. They might have voted for Trump but if they are still happy with his letting RFK run amok, they are against very basic science. It literally doesn't take a brain surgeon to understand that vaccination is beneficial to public health.
I doubt they are happy about RFK. Regardless, all but one of the scientists I am talking about are quantum chemists. They do science that is more fundamental than you can imagine. They’re all funded by NSF, DoE, and NIH. They are most certainly not against basic science.
 
I doubt they are happy about RFK. Regardless, all but one of the scientists I am talking about are quantum chemists. They do science that is more fundamental than you can imagine. They’re all funded by NSF, DoE, and NIH. They are most certainly not against basic science.

They are looking at fundamental chemistry. And it's very impressive. But that doesn't translate to other fields.
 

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