Do you have a basis for this assertion that has been studied and reproduced by someone of the opposite political spectrum? I’m sorry but as a scientist, your a

Do you have a basis for this assertion that has been studied and reproduced by someone of the opposite political spectrum? I’m sorry but as a scientist, your assertion that we must hear from someone with the opposite political view before we can determine the veracity of some work is just so foreign to me. Must we also hear from creationists on evolution research? Why can’t that stand alone? If some experiment is reproducible it shouldn’t matter the political bias of the person running the study. Moreover how would this even be implemented? The idea of a “political spectrum” is just a rule of thumb at best, and a dangerous misleading heuristic at worst. According to you, how would we identify an author’s political bias? Force them to self identify or take some sort of certified test? Will we divide all of our departments between liberals and conservatives? Right now I don’t know the political affiliation of any of my colleagues, and they don’t know mine. Are you suggesting we should bring our politics explicitly into our research? I mean… have you even thought any of this through?