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Conservatives Lose Faith in Science
By NCD on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 5:36pm |Of course, because facts, which science seeks to discover, don't support the right wing ideology of the GOP, Limbaugh and Fox News.
Conservatives' trust of science has gradually decreased over the past 40 years, beginning perhaps when empirical research was increasingly used to justify government regulations, according to a new academic analysis.
The study, appearing this week in the April edition of the journal American Sociological Review, identifies a 25 percent drop among conservatives who express trust in the scientific community since 1974.
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=conservatives-lose-faith-in-science-over-last-40-years
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