Sorry, but if you don't believe in speciation you don't believe in evolution and you belong in the stupid/ignorant grouping of conservatives and your opinion on AGW is therefore also not worthy of much consideration. And the same question (you can read them) was asked of both dems and pubs so regardless of any possible "agenda", the ratios are still valid.
And who has more power and money to "buy" scientists, the vast green power industry or the weak and ineffective fossil-fuel industry ? I keep hearing about the supposed political bias of scientists but there is absolutely no proof this is happening. Scientists get into science because they love science, not because they are money-hungry political ideologues. The idea that all the world's climatologists would abdicate their intellectual and moral integrity just to put out bad news about the state of the earth is absurd.
I don't recall the mention of any terms like conservative, liberal, republican, Jesus or god in any of my chemistry, biology or math classes at Tech? Has something changed since I was a young man ?
Yes, unfortunately "science" has become politicized. Oh...and one more thing has changed since then, Al Gore invented the internet.
The job of academics now is to raise grant money. Anyone who tells you different is either a liar or clueless. University departments are nothing more than grant-application offices. They have their superstars and rainmakers, just like law firms and investment banks. Believe me, they are not the professors who the students love or who are inspired teachers. They are the ones who bring home the bacon. Most grant money comes from the federal government. The climate-related grants are coming from organizations that have a clear political agenda. Everyone in academia knows this and they know that they willnever ever get another grant if they whisper even the tiniest doubt about the most speculative scaremongering over AGW.
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Riiiight, the vast green energy industry just crushes the weak, profitless fossil-fuel interests. Seriously, what do you use for a brain?