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Maybe academia would be less politically one-sided if the other side hadn't built their brand on ignoring science in all its forms.
by Zungaron 8y ago
Maybe academia would be less politically one-sided if the other side hadn't built their brand on ignoring science in all its forms.
- manigandham 8y agoThat's an inflammatory statement that offers nothing productive. There's no political party against science, and there's just as much non-scientific dogmatic content from both ends of the spectrum.
- bzbarsky 8y agoHow do you square that opinion with the fact that the parts of academia that are least one-sided politically are the parts which actually do the best job of using the scientific method in practice? https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/11/leftist-academia-democrats-rule-trend-increasing/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/11/leftist-academia-demo... is a decent recent-ish article on the topic. Note the offhand comments about blatant discrimination in hiring, which might just be a relevant thing here. And from what I've seen, non-liberals in humanities departments commonly have to deal with what is pretty much the textbook definition of a hostile work environment. It just happens that political affiliation and opinion is not a protected class, so it's not possibly to do anything about it other than leaving. Which is what people do in practice.