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There was probably motivated reasoning with the snail darter, but to call it outright fraud is a bit rich. The hypothesis was proven wrong with technology we di
by actionfromafar 1y ago
There was probably motivated reasoning with the snail darter, but to call it outright fraud is a bit rich. The hypothesis was proven wrong with technology we didn't have access to in 1973. (Re [1])
It's also kind of funny to me that "all academics are far left". I'd love to hear more about that.
Regarding what is critical to preserve, I don't know. Maybe some laws should be changed or amended.
[1]: https://yibs.yale.edu/news/fish-center-key-conservation-fight-not-distinct-species-after-all https://yibs.yale.edu/news/fish-center-key-conservation-figh...
- qcnguy 1y agoThere's lots of info about academic far leftism out there. This article is a decade old now (the problem is surely now far worse) but the trend in the graph is clear: https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/professors-moved-left-but-country-did-not/ https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/professors-moved-left-but-... That's an average of self reported views, in a culture where everyone tells each other they're totally moderate and neutral. The problem is less serious in engineering subjects. In non-engineering subjects, far leftism is pretty much homogenous.