A refutation of a stupid thesis (including a dumb book by Chris Mooney). If I had time, I’d write a book called “The Democrats’ War On Science.” It would have a more solid basis than Mooney’s.
Oh, and this once again puts paid to the notion of “peer review” as having any value.
[Update a few minutes later]
“Consensus,” and politics disguised as science.
I suspect that the Republican brain has much lower levels of tofu, THC, and spiced latte but higher levels of beef proteins, Cuban tobacco, and single-malt scotch. But that’s just a guess based on observations of left-wing media pundits versus Rush Limbaugh.
There was another set of researchers who recently refuted a couple decades of Republican/Liberal personality studies that had been taught as dogma, which claimed liberals were more open and Republicans were more authoritarian. The researchers just changed the names of the groups being asked about, such as swapping the NRA for Greenpeace, and suddenly the Republicans rated as open and the liberals rated as authoritarian.
Decades of psychological research went out the window (or should), because all they’d had actually established was that people have negative views of groups they don’t like.
It’s interesting how much some equate disagreement with mental illness. It’s a new low though to actually throw funding at attempts to give this sort of belief a scientific veneer.
Well stated Karl.