“Anywhere in the world that social psychologists see women or minorities underrepresented by a factor of two or three, our minds jump to discrimination as the explanation,” said Dr. Haidt, who called himself a longtime liberal turned centrist. “But when we find out that conservatives are underrepresented among us by a factor of more than 100, suddenly everyone finds it quite easy to generate alternate explanations.”
In the New York Times, no less.
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As Hunter S. Thompson used to put it, "even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while". :-)
Did you seethis article on high school teachers rejecting evolution? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/science/08creationism.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fscience%2Findex.jsonp
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