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I once received a rejection letter from an elite school (I have a Ph.D. and was applying for a lecture position). The head of the search committee told me, nearly verbatim: "your pedigree is not high enough for you to be hired at this institution".

So, yeah, I can see that. I graduated from (at that time) an R2 and was applying at R1s. Nope.

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Essentially all education, science, is taited by racist cleptocrats reinforcing there own families importance over time. Think about the decisions that are tainted because of this self importance?

I will say it again, that means ALL RESEARCH (which informs government policy) IS TAINTED by the views appropriotated by these people. That means assumptions, starting and ending points, methodologies.... ie. drug addiction, mental health, treatment of aboriginal populations, behavioural, gene, medical, tainted. Anything, tainted.

Tainted.

This is why the scientific method is a robust process. When bad theories are investigated, the unyeildimg accumulation of evidence will eventually result in an improving model of objective reality regardless of individual idiosyncrasies.

How long does that take? How long does something politically convenient but completely unfunctional in reality last? Lysenkoism was popular from 1933-1965. Who says it won't take us that long to learn the lessons of defunding the police? Or Critical race theory.

This is naieve.

Just like journalists, scientists can select which ideas to research, which ideas to promote, which ideas get funded, etc.

So if all of science comes from people with one homogeneous ideology, you're going to get homogeneous ideological research.

I don't know why you're being downvoted. It's an interesting point.

If journalism can be captured by certain ideology's why wouldn't scientific research be able to be?

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