A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? 668
An anonymous reader with a snippet from Politico: "A finding in a study on the relationship between science literacy and political ideology surprised the Yale professor behind it: Tea party members know more science than non-tea partiers. Yale law professor Dan Kahan posted on his blog this week that he analyzed the responses of more than 2,000 American adults recruited for another study and found that, on average, people who leaned liberal were more science literate than those who leaned conservative. However, those who identified as part of the tea party movement were actually better versed in science than those who didn't, Kahan found. The findings met the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor said. Kahan wrote that not only did the findings surprise him, they embarrassed him. 'I've got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected I'd be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension,' Kahan wrote. 'But then again, I don't know a single person who identifies with the tea party,' he continued.'" More at the Independent Journal Review.
Re:actual "platform" (Score:2, Funny)
Taxes in excess of those required to fulfill constitutional mandates. Easy.
Almost all spending isn't Constitutionally mandated. No more Social Security. No more Medicare & Medicaid. No more death benefits for military families. No more pensions for former members of Congress or Presidents. No more Federal Reserve, Treasury or Secret Service. Almost all Federal Employes will be let go. Most government contracts to outside vendors would be terminated.
Sounds like we'll cut 99% of all spending. Fend for yourselves everyone.
Re: actual "platform" (Score:5, Funny)
Don't see anything about an Air Force!
Although I do see combating piracy. I would like to hear more about the Tea Party's policies on combating high seas pirates.
Re:Medical professionals (Score:2, Funny)
Doctors are evil and you should hate them. Because they make more money than you. Let the spirit of envy guide you.
Besides, what did doctors ever do to help anyone?
Re:Medical professionals (Score:4, Funny)
Given that the survey was of Americans (Score:2, Funny)
remember that it's effectively "survey of idiots finds that idiocy rates were slightly different between the two groups of idiots".
Newsflash: that ain't a ray of sunshine.