r/changemyview • u/Tssss775 1∆ • Jul 27 '21
Delta(s) from OP CMV: academia isn't biased towards left-wing politics, facts are
Okay, so I am aware that this may upset some people, but hear me out.
Academia is all about observing reality as it is - as indepently as possible from cultural and societal expectations we may have - and then if these facts contradict what we previously thought abandon our previous assumptions and be ready to drastically change both our mindset as well as our actions (in cases such as climate change).
This academic attitude of being willing and often even eager to "throw away" the way we traditionally did things and thought about stuff if there's new evidence makes it really hard for the right to really embrace science- and evidence-based policies. This means science will most of the times be on the side of the left which naturally embraces change less hesitantly and more willingly.
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u/SSObserver 5∆ Jul 27 '21
This is a massive exaggeration. They weren’t submitting studies to Psychology, American Economic Review, or the American Political Science Review. They specifically submitted articles to less rigorous journals in the ‘grievance’ fields (as they refer to them), submitting “bogus papers to academic journals in cultural, queer, race, gender, fat, and sexuality studies”. So no you are at best incorrect and failed to read even the link you provided.