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Thanks for your involvement. I would first suggest that there is no such thing as 'science' threads. Posts which discuss science typically have been posted in News/Activism. If people who have different opinions than original posters are going to be required to stay off certain posts within News/Activism, then that topic should be broken out from News/Activism in the same way General Chat or Religion is.

Establish a science category, and much of this repetitive nonsense from both sides will fade away.

If discussions of science are within the category of News/Activism, then where would a post regarding Christianity versus Islam and how it is impacting politics and war be categorized? In religion or News/Activism?

All logic points to isolating these discussions the same way blogs and personal and chat and religion has been. This topic is too devisive and is not pertinent nor even connected to conservatives winning and maintaining The House, The Senate, The WOT, Iraq, defeating liberalism, lowering taxes, reducing government, etc., all of which are the primary conservative activism issues.

The definition of insanity is trying to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. That is what we have been doing here for 7+ years on this issue, and I believe it is time for a change.

This topic is too devisive and is not pertinent nor even connected to conservatives winning and maintaining The House, The Senate, The WOT, Iraq, defeating liberalism, lowering taxes, reducing government, etc

Not true. A large number of my colleagues are leaving the Republican Party for this very reason. They feel that the conservative movement is anti science. If we continue to promote that view, we will lose a great deal of folks. This is the reason I debate on these threads. To let folks know that you can be a legit scientist and still be a conservative at the same time.

Regarding the suggestion of a separate forum for science threads, I think that's a big mistake. Science is news. The education controversies over teaching science are news. The alleged anti-science attitude of the Republican party (so lovingly perpetuated by the MSM) is news. Editorials about such issues are also news. Such news affects the success of the Republican party. Further, it is (in my always humble opinion) very valuable to have such issues discussed in the news forum because it continues to attract highly educated conservatives -- such as scientists and other academics -- to this website.

On the other hand, there are blog articles related to these topics, often lacking in science content, which obviously belong in the blogger forum, or sometimes chat. But there is no need for the creation of a separate science forum. The news forum seems entirely appropriate.

You may recall, about three years ago, there were a few extremely disruptive posters who were trying to get all science articles banned from this website. Fortunately that effort failed, and most (but not all) of those disruptors managed to get themselves banned. There is no reason to revive their cause by considering a ban of science articles from the news forum. The problem isn't with the subject matter, it's with a few disruptive people. The problem will be easily handled with a few "Stay off this thread!" posts from the mods.