Sunday, December 21, 2014

BECAUSE THE "WAR ON CHRISTMAS" MEME SEEMS TO HAVE DIED...

as Bashful Bill O'Reilly admits, I guess the conservatives have to look for another target and perhaps the new one will be academics, esp. the humanities and the social sciences, if this article is any indication:
How academia's liberal bias is killing social science
A blockbuster new report includes some unsettling revelations
By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry | December 17, 2014
THE WEEK

I point this out not to score culture-war points, but because it's actually a serious problem. Social sciences and humanities cannot be completely divorced from the philosophy of those who practice it. And groupthink causes some questions not to be asked, and some answers not to be overly scrutinized. It is making our science worse. Anyone who cares about the advancement of knowledge and science should care about this problem.
There is more than a bit of whining in the article & I replied to one instance:
piniella • 15 hours ago

The authors say they have all heard groups of social psychologists make
jokes at the expense of conservatives — not just at bars, but from the
pulpits of academic conferences. (This probably counts as
micro-aggression.)
Well, conservatives are a target-rich group (Cruz, Schlafly, Gohmert, Hannity, Limbaugh, Santorum, Palin, most Fox News shows, Coulter,....)

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