I Know You Are But What Am I?
That's the best response I can think of this to this example of leftist arrogance:
The reason why various departments in humanities and social sciences do not hire conservatives is the same reason no department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology would ever hire a creationist - they are wrong. Their research method is useless: starting with the conclusions then cherry-picking "evidence" to support the conclusions. That is how creationists operate. That is how conservatives operate. That is not quality work and there is no reason why any department should hire such sub-standard faculty. The important question is how come such ass-idiots ever got hired and tenured in departments of business, economics, religion and law? Isn't THAT the real example of ideologically-based hiring? There is no other explanation for them being hired in the first place. Quality of their work and thought could not possibly have been a cause for their hire.In other words, the left is overwhelmingly dominant in university departments where they study their own opinions. University departments where they study either the external world (the sciences, engineering, and economics) or the opinions of people outside the university (religion and law) have more diverse faculties.
I noticed that the list of Enemy Departments included economics. When I checked the consensus/mainstream ratio for sci.econ, I noticed it was almost exactly balanced. I suppose that means the Establishment sometimes makes sense but not always.
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Yikes.
Bora Zikovic actually posted that tirade on Science and Politics? How did I miss it? It must have been because I was on call and rather busy over the weekend. I had not realized Bora could demonstrate such arrogance.
I have to say, I'm disappointed. His writing is usually better than that, often quite enjoyable, even to a center-right type like myself. I even link to him in my blogroll. Maybe it's a bout of temporary insanity.
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