Academic Ideologues Are Corrupting STEM. The Silent Liberal Majority Must Fight Back. I received a flood of encouraging emails from others who share my concern with the process by which radical political doctrines are being injected into STEM pedagogy.

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I get that the author wants to play wordgames but it's a silent conservative majority. And scientists are usually conservative because that is the correct viewpoint to have based on logic and reason. Politics is a science, and using the scientific method will lead you to realize which is the correct way to run society.

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"The authors of this study surveyed a large number (combined N = 800) of social and personality psychologists and discovered several interesting facts. First, although only 6% described themselves as conservative "overall," there was more diversity of political opinion on economic issues and foreign policy. Second, respondents significantly underestimated the proportion of conservatives among their colleagues. Third, conservatives fear negative consequences of revealing their political beliefs to their colleagues. Finally, they are right to do so: In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists said that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues. The more liberal respondents were, the more they said they would discriminate."

http://yoelinbar.net/papers/political_diversity.pdf

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social and personality psychologists. Not really stem. And if they're a silent liberal majority, no need to be silent, they can definitely openly state their liberal views. That was my only issue here, that quote you have is good.