On Monday, April 14, 2014 2:54:25 AM UTC+1, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 07:03:31AM -0700, [email protected] > <javascript:>wrote: > > > > On Saturday, April 12, 2014 2:57:39 PM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote: > > > A large component of the political spectrum do feel alienated from > science > > > and that does leave them - and so as find with climate Science - > vulnerable > > > in a way it once was not. And there is a reason for that, that the > > > institutions of science show no willingness to reflect on at all. For > up to > > > 50 or 60 years, academic institutions, usually in the form of > academics > > > with too much say over who gets posts, have blatently followed > corruption > > > recruitment practiced, packing people in that reflect ONE part of the > > > political and economic, social and ideological spectrum. Broadly, > > > conservatives have been pushed and kept out. > > > > > > Chickens come home to roost. Look in the mirror time. > > > > > > > I'm trying to improve my typo problem. So that sentence above should > have > > read > > o > > "A large component of the political spectrum do feel alienated from > science > > and that does leave them - and so as we now find with AGW - Science > itself, > > vulnerable in a way it once was not. Vulnerable to this kind of > > manipulation, from admittedly even fouler sources. > > > > What would be a good piece of science would be to find out (a) what the > > impact this internal corrupt practice within science of effectively > making > > political views a criteria for gettingices o ahead. and (a) about the > > practices deployed to distort the public view. How many people that are > > found first by the sophisticated denial approach, ever change their > mind? > > And vice verca? > > > > Do you have evidence that "conservatives have been pushed and kept out > (of academia)"? > > Whilst it is true that people who's views lie outside the current > paradigm might be pushed out, I'd be very surprised if that aligned > along the conservative-progressive political axis - except perhaps in > Political Science department > Cheers
the naïve 'conservative' reference was pretty spot on.....that much, then. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
