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I personally mostly don't agree with conservative media either, and I even mostly agree with you here, but to be fair the left also has their anti-fact narrativ

• veidr 9y ago
  I completely agree with you, and didn't mean to imply otherwise. Although I do think there tends to be a broader overlap on the "conservative" side, for reasons for that are complicated and don't necessarily have a lot to do with being conservative, the "liberal" side does indeed have its vaccine deniers, MSG paranoiacs, and so on. (However, they don't have TV networks dedicated to these things, available in every hotel and airport in the country...) I try to judge media organizations (and people) based on their commitment to truth and openness to empirical evidence and new information. Their political leanings may be interesting, but are a (much) less significant data point.
  • folknor 9y ago
    That used to be the tendency, yes, but according to Jonathan Haidt at https://heterodoxacademy.org https://heterodoxacademy.org, "the left" has caught up to "the right"/conservatives in the number of scientific topics they deny outright, and it has happened in the last 5 years. So very recently, and unless you've been to college in those years, you won't be aware of it. I forget where he said it, or I would link to it. It might have been in a recent conversation he had with Jordan Peterson.