Affirmative action and the Academy

Kronology ^ | 02/12/11 | Nicholas Kronos

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According to Haidt, the nature of the discrimination is, at least in the case of his field of sociology, a “tribal-moral community” united by “sacred values” hindering research and damaging credibility—and blinding sociologists to the hostile climate they’ve created for non-liberals. From the global warming debate it is also obvious that even the natural sciences evidence this same hostility to contradiction of the group narrative. That is, whereas any research can be expected to face contradiction of its conclusions, the scientist who produces research unsupportive of the party line can expect ridicule, the scientist who offers even shoddy and unprofessional support can expect praise.