[VOA]

Mr. Summers is a pol that pandered, was elected and turned-out for
offending his electorate.

He is also a fool (even if he's a smart fellow).
Anyone that has spent any short amount of time in most of today's
research science labs realizes that they are just about the most
politically-correct environments on the campus.

It drives me a bit crazy when smart guys like Dennis Prager say that
liberalism and political-correctness has at least not infiltrated the
"hard sciences" sector of the academy.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

The Science Wars are older than our conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq. Read 'Higher Superstition' or 'Flight From Science and Reason', both by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt (an avowed leftie), as intros to the genre of literature. The hoax essay 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity' by Alan Sokal and the ensuing controversy is illustrative.