“Bias? No, these are the ‘centrist’ views!”
Anything else would be far right extremist.
There is no such thing as “far left extremist”.
No Leftist position is too far.
This year we heard Bernie Bros calling for gulags and political re-education of dissidents, claiming that Stalin was right.
Their piece violates common sense and misconstrues basic statistical reasoning.
I cannot understand why columnists and those who, like myself, want not only to bring these current faces of Marxism/communism down, but want them to abandon their footing, which is to refuse to debate, use logic or true statistics in confrontations.
Their locked-in forcible approach is to believe in their false dogma regardless of any reasoning and proofs to the contrary. They have become convinced of their boilerplate mottos and hypopcritical untruths actually to the point of death, violent if necessary, and theirs if not first yours. for their tenacity to unreasoned bulwarks, which itself is not only unreasonable but suicidal.
A measure of IQ regarding the sensibility of their talking points is less than zero--it is to be refuted as an anchoring quality, though they be tenured "professors" of what used to be centers of humanistic intellectuality.
The article supposes that the published paper in view can be measured by and confronted with logic or reason. It cannot, in the rules of engagement that they have put in place, not debative ones that the article presumes useful.
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(The above written by myself, possessor of a PhD and postdoctoral training obtained when the hard sciences and engineering had not yet succumbed to the socialistic SDS hedonism of the liberal arts departments, 1970s era.)