The Left's War on Science

Many in the media say there’s a conservative war on science.

Is this true? No, says John Tierney, Contributing Editor at the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. Tierney says “the real war on science is the one from the left.”
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John Stossel points out that people on the right are more likely to believe in creationism.

Tierney answers, “creationism doesn't… affect the way science is done. I can't find examples where the right-wing stopped the progress of science… whereas you can look on the left and you see so many areas that are taboo to research.”

Gender differences, IQ trends, genetically modified foods. Tierney says the left stifled research into what could have been a second Green Revolution to feed Africa.

People who study gender difference have leaned to keep quiet, says Tierney. “You can't say that there are more men are more aggressive, more risk-taking, that status matters and making money matters more to them.”

Finally, Tierney complains that Universities are utterly dominated by leftists. In the social sciences, Democrats outnumber Republicans by at least eight to one. In some fields like sociology it's 44 to one. Students are more likely to be taught in sociology by a Marxist [25%] than by a Republican [2%].

Tierney says “once an academic department gets a majority of people who are on the left, they start hiring people like themselves, and pretty soon the whole department is that way. They start to think that their opinions and that their interests are not only the norm, but the truth.”

John Stossel says: think about that, next time you hear about a "conservative war on science".

[blondthought]

Always question who's funding a study. It makes all the difference.

[edwardbadlands]

“Control the language, control the culture” this is what the Left has taught me.

[kungfew]

When you cut out a person's tongue you don't prove them a liar, rather you prove you fear what they have to say.- GRR Martin
Thanks to all of you for the likes and comments, united we stand! ✌❤

[TheEMC]

John Stossel is a hero. Plain and simple. He doesn't just say what you want to hear. Often it isn't. He just goes looking for the truth and we all benefit.

[illbbback]

Dear John Stossel; Please do not get old. We need you more now then ever.

[cuujblr]

I can't imagine being so insecure about intelligence that you go after the people researching IQ. It's ridiculous.

[saintoflastresorts]

No politician likes science until their lobbyist tells them to do so.

[isaiahwelch]

"In questions of science, I would not trust a thousand men in authority over the reasonings of a humble and wise man." ~ Galileo

[freecat]

Sociology is a soft science; it has never been softer.

[chrisnotap]

Keep going John! Level headed discussion always win over.

[col.cottonhill]

The people who believe in 84 genders want to tell us about science.

[DiscoveryNewsNow]

OMG, this is actually being discussed. I'm impressed. Berkeley was a socialist indoctrination center when I went there 12 years ago. I couldn't imagine what it's like today.

[fhuber]

Ever since the term "political correctness" was invented, I have said that it is all about censoring anything that proves liberals are wrong.

[jediknight]

If you really want to offend the piss out of someone, do it by being completely honest with them.

[ableVelo]

I saw the Left pushing out conservatives from Academia all throughout the 80's and 90's. Once they got into a position of power, they did not show the "tolerance" to the conservative professors and teachers that they demanded from them (constantly in order to get into the position of power in the first place). This speaker is absolutely correct. Much of our current Academia is now in a dogmatic stupor, from which I don't know if we'll ever be able to recover. In truth, massive lies are being spread through our current Universities in the name of "science". It's a terrible thing to witness.

[nonyadamnbusiness]

He's leaving out how the anti-nuke crowd has the US burning 10 times the amount of coal we otherwise would be.

[germslover]

While I was obtaining my education, in the early undergrad day's I was continuously bombarded by leftist professors from sociology to speech that the United States was so unfair to everybody but white males. I had a speech professor that spewed so much leftist dribble that even though I was averaging a B+ average in my studies, mind you I was playing the game, I finally could not take it any more and challenged the professor during one of her dribble sessions and that was it from that point on I could see her hatred for my point of view that it made for a really interesting semester. Thankfully, once I was finished with my undergraduate work and actually entered into grad school and started work in my major molecular biology it seemed to be night and day, although I still ran into liberals here and there for the most part the professors and students were more on the conservative side. It's my personal opinion that if a university want's public funds that they should show that their professorship shows a healthy array of political opinions so that the student's get exposed to many different political views because look around what we're seeing today is what happens when your exposed to only one viewpoint. It's sick.

[FlyingMalamute]

I'm female with a PhD in physics, which I got in 1989. Men helped me get there and were actually somewhat more supportive than women I knew.

[FastDuDeJiunn]

i talked about this in my middle school and high school as a teenager to my teachers. they called me crazy. sent me to principal. told him the same thing. now 25 years here we are. just where i told them we were heading and the shits not hit the fan

[isaiane]

I remember before college i worked in a call centre. I met women who had been on the phone 10, 15, 20 years. I asked them why they weren't supervisors, managers or trainers if they had been there so long. The majority would answer, "I don't want to do that, it's too much pressure." Prejudice in the workplace is BS, they chose to remain stagnant. There is no hidden patriarchy keeping them down.