[learc83]

This wasn't an argument on whether a Tea Party backed political party would be detrimental to science in general. Your assertion was that we should control for Tea Party members in a particular scientific study.

If what you say is true --That a certain subset of the population, that you find undesirable, will negatively impact the results of the study --Then, I will point out another subset of the population who, given you're apparent political leanings you won't find undesirable, that will impact the study in the same way.

I did this so that hopefully you would see the problem with arbitrarily deciding to exclude a group of people who you disagree with from consideration.

Btw I'm certainly not a conservative. I would also ask you to read my response to the comment below.