Sure, social scientists are pretty open about their discrimination of conservatives. They admitted it in a survey[1]. The bigger problem is that social science

Sure, social scientists are pretty open about their discrimination of conservatives. They admitted it in a survey[1]. The bigger problem is that social science has few correction mechanism. Your biases in computer science will usually be quickly and brutally dealt with by an uncaring computer. Physicists have actual, definitive experiments. Social sciences are seemingly helpless in the face of p-hacking and other bullshittery, even outright fabrications. Ideological bias of course makes it worse (vide Stapel's paper on racism[2]) but it's not the root cause. [1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/?page=all http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-major... [2] http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110407/full/news.2011.217.html http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110407/full/news.2011.217.ht...