> Claim 1 I respect that your opinion is that ISPs have a social responsibility to disclose this information so think tanks and academies don't have to find it

> Claim 1 I respect that your opinion is that ISPs have a social responsibility to disclose this information so think tanks and academies don't have to find it. I'm curious if anyone thought to ask them, but that's neither here nor there. I don't generally expect businesses to provide data apart beyond that which is required by law, but I'll concede the point since it's unrelated to my claims. > Claim 2: On this issue, I think it's helpful to discuss "critical studies" and related departments separately from the rest of "academia" and separately from the natural and mathematical sciences in particular. I don't think that the liberal bias in natural/math sciences has the same underlying causes OR the same long-term effects. I agree, and I intended to. I should have done better, but I quickly authored that comment from my phone in the waiting room at the vet clinic. > You also have to explain why political diversity is even important in the face of other forms of homogeneity. E.g., I'd rather a very liberal, very theoretical physics department hire a flaming liberal experimentalist than yet another theorist who happens to be conservative. The importance of political diversity in humanities and social sciences is obvious, but I don't see why science would suffer if all algebraists were libertarians... Again, I don't mean to apply my "political diversity" quip to apolitical fields. > My assertion is that if you want a politically diverse chemistry department, you have to 1) justify why that diversity is even necessary / more significant than other major problems; and then 2) probably also solve different underlying causes. I agree, and I don't think political diversity is important in chemistry, since few chemistry topics are politically polarized. > "Of course, I'm picking on the academy, but the same probably holds true for journalism." And also literally every other profession, from clergy to CEOs to career criminals. There's even a trite quote about it. Probably some degree of political diversity is good for all fields, but it's uniquely critical for politically polarized epistemological fields.