[okie01]

I think even many scientists engage in emotionally based magical thinking and everything else is filtered through that lens.

Lenin once noted that "Everything is political".

And, if one is a socialist, it is. It's just one more article of faith.

Leftists define themselves by their politics. It's who they are. A socialist scientist cannot, in fact, be a scientist. His findings will invariably be informed by his politics.

As we have discovered to our dismay in the AGW "crisis"...

[TigersEye]

Leftists define themselves by their politics.

I would even say that most leftists define themselves only by their politics and that's another example of ego-gratification.