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Study: How Dems and GOP Cite Science, Stark Differences

Democratic-led congressional committees and left-wing think tanks reference research papers more often than their right-wing counterparts.

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Several research institutes in Germany are joining a worldwide grassroots effort to save science data sets that researchers fear could be deleted by US President Donald Trump's administration https://go.nature.com/4jnEXnt

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-- Nature (@nature.com) April 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM

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... The United States is known for the deep polarization between its two major political parties " the right-wing Republicans and left-wing Democrats. Now an analysis of hundreds of thousands of policy documents reveals striking differences in partisan policymakers' use of the scientific literature, with Democratic-led congressional committees and left-wing think tanks more likely to cite research papers than their right-wing counterparts.

The analysis also shows that Democrats and left-leaning think tanks are more likely to cite high-impact research, and that the two political sides rarely cite the same studies or even the same topics.

"There are striking differences in amount, content and character of the science cited by partisan policymakers," says Alexander Furnas, a political scientist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and a co-author of the analysis, published1 in Science on 24 April. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-26 12:41 AM

Science is for sissy's without guns and beer.

Guns and beer are the cause of and the solution to all our problems!

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-27 11:31 AM

Dems cite science and claim trans women menstruate.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-27 05:35 PM

Patricide Jeff claimed ivermectin was a game changer.

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-27 05:38 PM

Dems cite science and claim trans women menstruate.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger

Somewhere a village is missing it's idiot.

Still not allowed out of the house after standing on the corner and waving your penis at passing cars huh?

#5 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-27 10:03 PM

" huh?

#5 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2025-04-27 10:03 PM | FLAG: "

It's not my fault I accurately described one of the many 20 stances your party takes on 80/20 issues.

#6 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-27 11:23 PM

@#6 ... It's not my fault I accurately described one of the many 20 stances your party takes on 80/20 issues. ....

Which of the 20 stances was that one? But, more important, what are the 20 stances your current alias cites?

Let's start there.

Yer current alias is up ...


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-28 12:52 AM

Dems cite science and claim trans women menstruate.
#3 | Posted by BellRinger

They do?
Can we see where "science" was cited?

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-28 08:28 AM

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