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    1. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 26 Dec 2017

      8/Conservatives and rightists also see a (very selective) sampling of (usually fringe) social science and humanities papers via social media outlets like @RealPeerReview, which seem to confirm their worst fears about what social science does.

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    2. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 26 Dec 2017

      9/And they know that social science faculty tend to lean strongly to the left: https://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/09/14/bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity/ …

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    3. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 26 Dec 2017

      10/This combination of anecdotal and rigorous evidence has created a gestalt impression on the Right that social science is a locus of leftist ideas, energy, and bias - an intellectual handmaiden of the Social Justice movement.

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    4. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 26 Dec 2017

      Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦 Retweeted Ben Sasse

      11/This negative gestalt impression is clearly visible in the pronouncements of conservatives: https://twitter.com/BenSasse/status/938963583924424704 … And friends on the Right send me links to lefty-sounding sociology and humanities papers all day long.

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      hard sciences > social sciences
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    5. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 26 Dec 2017

      12/This is a very dangerous situation for our nation and our economy. Though the GOP shied away from it at the last minute, it came very close to attacking universities wholesale in the recent tax reform bill.https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-28/republican-tax-plan-for-colleges-is-a-self-inflicted-wound …

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    6. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 26 Dec 2017

      13/The Right simply feels that it has no other way of fighting back against the real or perceived flow of cultural-Left ideas that it thinks are flowing out of sociology/humanities departments.

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    7. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 26 Dec 2017

      14/The paper above is interesting not because it accurately diagnoses the CAUSE of conservative fear of social science, but because it suggests a way of addressing the problem without smashing our invaluable university system.

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    8. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 26 Dec 2017

      15/If university administrators and sociology/humanities departments were to explicitly and officially discourage the blending of activism and research, it wouldn't change much of substance...

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    9. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 26 Dec 2017

      16/...but it would send an important SIGNAL that academic institutions are still committed to objectivity. That universities are devoted to the advancement of knowledge rather than ideology.

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    10. Noah Smith  🐇 🇺🇦‏Verified account @Noahpinion 26 Dec 2017

      17/Therefore, I suggest that both university administrators and sociology/humanities departments explicitly call for research to be kept separate from activism. This would be a good way to help quiet conservative fears. (end)

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Dec 2017
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      What about Economic Departments? Should the political activities of Hayek & Friedman have been banned by their departments?

      6:31 AM - 27 Dec 2017
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        1. John Voorheis‏ @john_voorheis 27 Dec 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet @Noahpinion

          I mean, the phenomenon of people who don't actually know what economists do all day assuming all economists are right wing shills because Milton is.... A good illustration of Noah's point?

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