There was an interesting discussion about the lack of Republicans (or openly Republican) in science in Obsidian Wings a couple of months ago.
Basically -- because even the short version is getting to be too long -- I think that in the 80s the Republican powers saw even the hardest of hard scientists, the physicists and geologists and NASA, take positions that impeded the core Republican value of Making Money. Then, once they stopped worrying about what a bunch of eggheads thought, they could turn up the music playing to a Christianist audience and be against evolution and the wrong sort of medical research. But the underlying drive, IMHO, was Republican resistance to the kind of planetary systems concerns that we currently lump under "climate change".
No idea if that's exact or not - and I'd be interested to know what the breakdown of Liberal:ALP is in Australian scientists. Or, more accurately, the breakdown of Lib:ALP:Green to be honest.
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Date: 2011-02-01 09:57 am (UTC)Basically -- because even the short version is getting to be too long -- I think that in the 80s the Republican powers saw even the hardest of hard scientists, the physicists and geologists and NASA, take positions that impeded the core Republican value of Making Money. Then, once they stopped worrying about what a bunch of eggheads thought, they could turn up the music playing to a Christianist audience and be against evolution and the wrong sort of medical research. But the underlying drive, IMHO, was Republican resistance to the kind of planetary systems concerns that we currently lump under "climate change".
No idea if that's exact or not - and I'd be interested to know what the breakdown of Liberal:ALP is in Australian scientists. Or, more accurately, the breakdown of Lib:ALP:Green to be honest.