Posted on 10/24/2018 7:07:21 PM PDT by scrabblehack
In 2018, an unprecedented number of individuals across the country with science and technical backgrounds made a run for Congress. Many of them were energized by the perceived anti-science rhetoric of President Donald Trump and his administration concerning the environment and health, and by a desire to bring more evidence-based decision making into politics. Although a handful of candidates have advanced to next month’s midterm election, many didn’t make it through the primaries.
Of nearly 50 individuals with a science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) background—all of them Democrats—who sought a House seat this year and were tracked by Science, 30 were knocked out during their states’ primaries. 314 Action, a Washington DC–based nonprofit leading an organized effort to elect more scientists and engineers into public office, has also seen some attrition: Of the 22 campaigns the group endorsed, all Democrats, 13 won in the federal primaries.
Only 50 out of 1200 candidates (1600 minus incumbents) had a STEM background? And all of them were Democrats? Or is it that Science couldn't find any Republican challengers with a STEM background?? I think they call this "selection bias."
I think conservatives with STEM backgrounds, as a rule, are too successful in their field to be drawn to politics.
Lawyers should be banned from office.
No, to any Democrat scientist because they’re so darned dumb they can’t tell boys from girls.
The problem isn’t that they have STEM backgrounds, it’s that they are liberals/socialists/democrats.
This is from 2011,
http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2011/01/13/doctors-in-congress/
but it’s looking like selection bias to me.
The qualities that make for good STEM candidates make for poor politicians and vice versa.
In STEM, true and false does actually matter. Not so much in politics as long as the government still has access to money.
Jimmy Carter was a STEM Democrat. How did that work out?
Not a whole lot of STEM people in elected office. Usually successful on their own...until congress sends their jobs down the Ganges.
All Democrats? Fake scientists?
I remember a few years ago there were a large number of Republican physicians and dentists in office such as my former Congressman Tom Price, Georgia 6th.
My son is going to college to be a lawyer and wants to go into politics to help save the country from the leftists. Dont ban all of them. My boy is a keeper!
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