> If you loved science, you’d be voting based on candidates who want to increase funding for it. You’d be making it an issue that actually gets debated in the

> If you loved science, you’d be voting based on candidates who want to increase funding for it. You’d be making it an issue that actually gets debated in the media, that sees equal time with the wars we fight and the bills we pay our aging workforce. These other things are priorities too, but if you think that science comes after these things, you’re dead wrong: science is the reason we’ve gotten so damned good at these things. ...and the last part is what I think is the reason that there has developed a subculture of people who "fucking love science". They don't mean that they love the scientific process, but rather that they love the results that science is giving*. But of course, if there wasn't such a subculture, someone would make a blog post whining about how people aren't appreciative of the science that is the corner stone of modern civilization.