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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Go back and check those links to Heterodox Academy I posted. The extreme partisanship is real. Some faculties are 30:1 Democrat:Republican.
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So what are you arguing, that Republicans are being pushed out or their ideas and arguments buckle under the weight of academic scrutiny.
Take this story published today:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...-plan-igm-poll
42 top economists were asked if the Republican tax plan would deliver on the stated policy goals to grow the economy and reduce the debt. 41 of the leading economists in the US said that the Republican tax plan would not accomplish those goals.
Is this some type of systemic bias against Republicans in academia or is it a systemic problem that Republican ideology is not compatible with reality? Looks a lot more like the latter.
So it's important to have some perspective here. No one should support Laurier's actions in this case but to use this story as some type of bellwether on whether Academia is fair to right-wing ideologies is just totally off-base.