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Science is not politically correct, as we've seen in the whole Global Warming fiasco. Ever since the government took over the universities, we've seen this in
by lzw 16y ago
Science is not politically correct, as we've seen in the whole Global Warming fiasco. Ever since the government took over the universities, we've seen this increasing more and more.
I say this as scientist who used to work for a major university in a major national lab. Certain outcomes are not acceptable, even if they are scientifically correct.
- jseliger 16y agoScience is not politically correct, as we've seen in the whole Global Warming fiasco. Neither are politics, much of the time, and the problem with linking to an article from Fox is the network's slant. I'm not the only person to notice this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1658518 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1658518 . Until someone else picks this up and/or tries to see if it's actually true, it doesn't mean jack.
- mturmon 16y agoSince when did "the government" take over "the universities"? What department of "the government" gives orders to university professors? DARPA? NOAA? I guess this is a transnational agreement, because faculty move back and forth across the oceans, and their opinions don't change much. "The government" must be a lot more well-organized than I'd suspected.
- noblethrasher 16y agoAdmittedly I've never verified this but one of my history professors said that the department of education (under the Bush administration) requested that the instructors present a more pro-American narrative (or rather complained of a very anti-American bias in recent scholarship). (Obviously you should take this hearsay anecdote with the proverbial minimal quantity of sodium chloride but I'll try to verify it with some other professors in the department.)