Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>How <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cite</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a>: stark differences<br>Democratic-led congressional committees and left-wing think tanks reference research papers more often than right-wing counterparts.<br>Researchers used policy database Overton to assemble 50,000 policy documents produced by <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> congressional committees 1995-2021 and around 200,000 reports from 121 ideologically driven US think tanks over similar period. These documents contained 424,000 scientific references.<br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01311-9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-025</span><span class="invisible">-01311-9</span></a></p>