The only reason we have to suffer through seeing concepts like "right-wing" or "left-wing" scientists, is because the right (in the US) has politicized science.
Climate change is happening -> left wing propaganda!
Homosexuality is abundant in nature -> ..
Plus other things that I fear are going to start flame wars, since even among us there are people who won't accept the long standing scientific consensus.
Wonder what the distribution is like among BYU profs/postdocs... And how respected their work is within their fields?
Apreche · 6h ago
Being a scientist requires adherence to evidence based epistemology. That is inherently antithetical to right wing ideology.
bell-cot · 5h ago
Go back 150 years, and you could make a similar argument about scientists needing to be straight white male Christians, from one of a rather small number of countries. Probably with some talk about "one must recognize the ultimate authority of God over mortal man, before one can hope to see past one's own mortal failings, and comprehend even the most modest details our Creator's world...".
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burnt-resistor · 24m ago
Reality has a left-wing bias.
bell-cot · 5h ago
> Trust in science has been eroded because the field is so dominated by left-wing academics, a leading evolutionary biologist has warned.
> Ella Al-Shamahi, presenter of the BBC’s science series Human, ... says ...
Given her specialty, perhaps she should look into selective pressures against non-left-wing scientists, in recent-decades Western academia? Populations do evolve to better fit their environments and all...
123yawaworht456 · 6h ago
in China, all scientists are pro-CCP. in Russia, all scientists are pro-Putin.
cratermoon · 5h ago
In America, we seem to be heading to a day when all scientists are pro-Trump
cyberge99 · 3h ago
Science has either tested tested something rigorously or it hasn’t. I don’t think that 99% of the world scientists thinkanmade climate change is real matters which country they originate.
drewcoo · 5h ago
I actually read the article. That's no left. And I say that despite her being in several protected classes.
Leftists like me try to nudge centrists like her to be more left-leaning, but they refuse. Usually with the argument that a middle stance is better and more accepting (hey - compromise!) but never with the argument that meeting the far right in the middle accomplishes the same thing. Hypocrites.
Also, FWIW, "centrists" here means "moderate right wing folks."
burnt-resistor · 23m ago
The US mainstream media concept of "left" is neoliberal and loves the Abundance Clinton 2.0 corporate, trickle-down, voodoo economics.
readthenotes1 · 4h ago
"Leftists like me [you]" like to reinforce the "leftists will eat each other" trope.
From the article 'Al-Shamahi, 41, who describes her politics as “wokey-progressive — definitely left-wing”, '
Is it because she's British, from a Muslim background, a Yemeni family, or just that she's a woman that's she's not leftist enough for you?
locopati · 4h ago
None of those categories make one a leftist. Progressive leftist policies make one a leftist. And, seeing someone supposedly leftist saying "what's missing here is more right wing views" makes me think hmmm maybe she's more of a centrist than a leftist. Looking at the past 25 years alone in the US, the right has been anti-science, anti-education, anti-free speech (unless it agrees with their view of the world).
Climate change is happening -> left wing propaganda!
Homosexuality is abundant in nature -> ..
Plus other things that I fear are going to start flame wars, since even among us there are people who won't accept the long standing scientific consensus.
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> Ella Al-Shamahi, presenter of the BBC’s science series Human, ... says ...
Given her specialty, perhaps she should look into selective pressures against non-left-wing scientists, in recent-decades Western academia? Populations do evolve to better fit their environments and all...
Leftists like me try to nudge centrists like her to be more left-leaning, but they refuse. Usually with the argument that a middle stance is better and more accepting (hey - compromise!) but never with the argument that meeting the far right in the middle accomplishes the same thing. Hypocrites.
Also, FWIW, "centrists" here means "moderate right wing folks."
From the article 'Al-Shamahi, 41, who describes her politics as “wokey-progressive — definitely left-wing”, '
Is it because she's British, from a Muslim background, a Yemeni family, or just that she's a woman that's she's not leftist enough for you?