re: Eric Weinstein: Republicans are the party of BSers; Democrats are the party of gaslighters

Both frustrating, but one is clearly more dangerous than the other

Take global warming for some Republicans -

"We don't trust that the scientists aren't politically motivated so we don't believe in it. We'll now tune out everything else."

Take race/crime statistics for Democrats:

"We need to rethink the concepts of scientific knowledge and data-driven knowledge because they prop up things like misleading statistics on criminality."

In other words -

Republicans - Don't trust 'em, so I don't buy what they're selling

Democrats - Destroy all the underpinnings of the things I don't agree with, using made-up and inherently flawed tools

I'm going to side with the one that doesn't seek to eliminate science just because the scientific community says something I dislike