Posted on 08/07/2018 1:35:53 PM PDT by Heartlander
Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/
The big review paper on the lack of political diversity in social psychology
http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/09/14/bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity/
To paraphrase Dr. Gad Saad, there are evolutionary biologists getting hammered for talking about male/female dichotomy in lower species.
That these liberal bullies aren’t just denying that there are only two sexes in humans but at all levels of animals, to the point of arguing and shouting at people talking about gender differences between lesser animals.
Don’t you dare say the monkeys are just male and female and females prefer dolls!
Nice.
Since you asked, my field of research is plasma physics. Hard to imagine how that can be politicized, but politics always finds a way.
Figured that out in 7th Grade Science long ago.
Confirmed as Science Major six years later.
Yet that difference is present even in bacteria, which are classified as F- and F+. The yeast I used to grow for my graduate research were A and alpha. Male and female evolved because of the absolute need to keep mixing up the DNA, which mitigates the effects of constant mutation.
The thing about science is that it is observational. The physical world is not subject to change just because some liberal does not like the way it is. If you want to believe that brick is no different than marshmallow, and you fervently believe that, you are going to have a rude surprise when you decide to run full speed into a brick wall. Scientists who are interested in the truth do not try to pigeonhole data into predetermined conclusions; this was tried in the USSR with Lysenkoism, and not only failed but held Soviet science back so that even in the 2000s, Russian scientists were trying to fix the damage.
Interesting.
I confess that, as a life scientist, I interpret “plasma” as a primary component of blood. I do know what you are talking about; my undergraduate chemistry courses covered it.
My experience is that at the basic science level (where I am), the science is pretty much reflective of the physical world that we are trying to describe and characterize. Above that level, where basic transitions into applied, the problems start. That is partly because we are limited in our ability to do research on humans, so much of the “research” actually consists of statistical analyses. And that is just asking for trouble, because too many clinical researchers really do not understand that correlation is not causation. Thus, they take a very powerful data validation tool and treat it as data without ever doing any experiments. As a result, we have nonsense like “sodas cause obesity” being promoted to the public, with the result that cities are trying to ban sodas (and now straws).
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