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I think it's trying to appear to be science. They want the appearance of legitimacy and objectivity to encourage a particular position. A quick read through of
by sircastor 2y ago
I think it's trying to appear to be science. They want the appearance of legitimacy and objectivity to encourage a particular position.
A quick read through of the site shows it's a conservative-leaning group, and I'd be willing to bet that sooner-or-later they'll be pushing "a return to traditional values" as the cure for all our ills.
- jasonfarnon 2y agoA quick read through of the site shows it's a conservative-leaning group, this is neat, using guilt by association to support a comment alleging the fallacy of guilt by association
- bradleyjg 2y agoI think it's trying to appear to be science. This is fairly common in modern rhetoric. Even among scientists—they’ll write a rigorous paper with narrowly drawn conclusions and then give a much broader science-y interview about it.
- WorkerBee28474 2y ago> A quick read through of the site shows it's a conservative-leaning group While there's nothing wrong with being conservative, the group's founder is a self-described Democrat. > I'd be willing to bet that sooner-or-later they'll be pushing "a return to traditional values" as the cure for all our ills If "growing up in close-knit communities" (from the article) is a traditional value, then yes, they are saying that would be a good thing.
- peterdobs 2y ago[dead]
- naasking 2y ago> A quick read through of the site shows it's a conservative-leaning group It's conservative-leaning because...?
- mike_hearn 2y agoAfter Babel is Jonathan Haidt's site. He is very much not a conservative, as one might guess from his insistence on governments controlling everyone's social media and smartphone use. Although his work has tried to address the exclusion of conservatives from academia, that doesn't make him one.