I don’t hire/fire conservatives. I simply can’t trust the critical thinking and flexibility of someone who denies the science behind evolution or global warming. Their ideology infects every aspect of their work bc they fit data to their beliefs

And all conservatives = evolution and global warming deniers? Your troll game is weak.

It's no longer called global warming buddy. It's climate change. And the only people who have a critical thinking deficiency are the ones who refuse to question it. Science is science until evidence changes it. Many people question the science behind climate change not because of ideology or religion but because it's not foolproof.

That's discrimination in the first degree. Keep your political opinions outside of work, fool.

In business you have to make decisions even when iron-clad proof is not present. You have to use logic and go with the best evidence and best logical explanations. Science deniers show themselves as incapable of doing that. I wouldn't hire them either.

Well. Conservative in the true sense doesn't mean christian, only adverse to change and traditional. I am neither but every team I have worked on that had diversity and multiple perspectives outperformed homogenous groups.

If you do decide not to work with people due to religious beliefs don't say it or infer it. It is illegal.

Everybody fits data to their beliefs -- it's a core human bias. You just did it yourself by implying that all conservatives deny climate change and evolution.

Pretending that you're "above that" makes you seem completely clueless.

a non-conservative

I think the biggest irony here is that you are making sweeping decisions about conservatives based on anecdotal evidence and assumptions - and not critical thinking. The very thing you assume conservatives do.

This is kind of a funny troll.

Either way, you kind of have it wrong.

You should load up on Mormons! While they are extremely conservative they are also well-known for their loyalty.

In my experience, liberals and conservatives BOTH have areas of evidence-free political Kool-Aid drinking. (I won't give examples because I don't want to start an irrelevant argument here, but if you pay attention to politics, you'll be able to offer examples of your own.)

I think politics should be kept out of the workplace generally, as it just generates disagreements in an environment where people need to get along.

I think discriminating against someone because of their political opinions violates the basic civil right to have political opinions in a free society.

For the record, I'm not a big fan of either the Dummycrats or the Republigoons.

A mere 500 years ago, the "fact" that the earth is flat was considered "settled science". We now know how that turned out. The point: science, by it's very nature calls us to ask the difficult questions and challenge "norms". Great discoveries are made by the inquisitive among us. We see this evidenced daily within the data and computational sciences.

With regard to challenging the widely populated notion of "global warming", now renamed as "climate change", someone with what you refer to as a "conservative" viewpoint might just see the science from a different perspective. Since the human experience on this earth is still relatively young (certainly our ability to measure climate patterns), what we may think as a major climatic shift, may in fact be just a much shorter-term change in weather pattern. Along these lines, someone with a more traditional Judeo-Christian understanding, would likely agree that we (humans) have obligations to the environment, but consider it as a factor of stewardship. That, while on earth as "stewards" of the terra we should seek to eliminate pollution and unnecessary resource depletion. Moving towards renewable and sustainable energy sources ultimately makes sense from a conservative perspecitve as well.

The takehome of this short post: Don't disdain someone from a differing political perspective (conservative), especially if they are willing and able to articulate the reasoning behind their beliefs. Be mindful as a leader not to get tripped up by your own prejudices. Keep in mind that true conservatism is a "bet" on the responsible individual, and that trait should be welcomed in every organization.