"Why Academia Shuns Republicans"

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...the nation's best educated people overwhelmingly reject the GOP ... It's not as if this bias only holds among Marxist sociologist: The Democratic tendency is just as marked in the hard sciences. Are we really to believe that this is the result of an ideological conspiracy -- that physics departments everywhere suppress conservative quantum theorists? ... In recent years, the GOP has deliberatley cultivated anti-intellectualism, scorning experts in every field from global warming to stem cell research. Even on such matters as the war in Iraq and the federal deficit, Bush follows "his gut" and ignores the advice of experts. Academics -- who are trained to think through complexities, not brush them aside -- are rightly appalled by this. Their bias isn't aganist Republicans. It's against people who embrace their ignorance and call it a philosophy.

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It is pretty extreme to say that "the nation's best educated people overwhelmingly reject the GOP", but also not surprising: science and technology have made advancements in recent history that undermine their beliefs.