Campus Conformists - (Excellent!)

New York Post Online.com ^ | NOVEMBER 28, 2004 | GEORGE WILL

[CHARLITE]

OH, well, if studies say so. The great secret is out: liberals dominate campuses. Coming soon: "Moon Implicated in Tides, Studies Find."

One study of 1,000 professors finds that Democrats outnumber Republicans at least seven to one in the humanities and social sciences. That imbalance, more than double what it was three decades ago, is intensifying because younger professors are more uniformly liberal than the older cohort that is retiring.

Another study, of voter-registration records, including those of professors in engineering and the hard sciences, found nine Democrats for every Republican at Berkeley and Stanford. Among younger profs, there were 183 Democrats, six Republicans.

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

[megatherium]

If you wander into Evans Hall on the Berkeley campus, and look at the mathematics department directory and see all the famous names, you cannot help but be impressed. Maybe these professors are liberal (indeed, I bet most of them are). But they aren't at Berkeley because they're politically correct. They're there because they're the best mathematicians in the world.

Now the sociology or history departments, that might be a different story all together.

[Gunrunner2]

As long as the math profs don't bring politics into the classroom. . .so be it.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

but how COULD math geniuses be Liberal. ;) Math is absolute and Libs are relativists. Maybe they can stay in denial by avoiding astronomy and thoughts of Noah's Ark on Ararat....

[TASMANIANRED]

The math professors probably aren't registered.

[megatherium]

One of the best mathematicians around is a Yale professor named Serge Lang. But politically, he is a complete maniac. In between writing elegant monographs and textbooks on advanced mathematics, he finds time for quixotic leftist causes.

Lang happens to belong to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. This organization is arranged so that each discipline has only so many membership slots. Whenever a slot becomes vacant, the discipline nominates a replacement; the entire NAS votes to approve the nomination by secret ballot. The prominent historian Samuel P. Huntington (The Clash of Civilizations) was nominated by the historians. Lang convinced the NAS to vote against Huntington, twice (1986 and 1987). Lang claimed that Huntington was a pseudo-scientist, and he claimed that Huntington's work was flawed if not dishonest.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

From what I've seen of the N.A.S., it obtains govt. and mega-corporate monies and uses them for its own agendae, including evolutionary teaching. BIG money involved, very atheist and political from my observations.

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

Idiots in power tend to hire other idiots with the same thought processes.

[pete anderson]

Just shows where a little bit of education will get you.

[megatherium]

The NAS is a private, non-profit organization which was chartered by Congress in 1863 to advise the government on scientific and technical matters.

I don't honestly know much about its politics. But I would be astonished if the biologists in the NAS did not support evolution. Evolution is considered to be the foundation of modern biology: the evidence for deep geological time and the evidence for common descent are overwhelming. (Mechanisms for evolution are where the only debates are happening: a very small minority of biologists argue that chance and necessity, that is, Darwinist natural selection, cannot explain speciation; intelligent design must have been involved.)