HOW ACADEMIA’S LIBERAL BIAS is killing social science. “A study that sought to show that conservatives reach their beliefs only through denying reality achieved that result by describing ideological liberal beliefs as ‘reality,’ surveying people on whether they agreed with them, and then concluding that those who disagree with them are in denial of reality — and lo, people in that group are much more likely to be conservative! This has nothing to do with science, and yet in a field with such groupthink, it can get published in peer-reviewed journals and passed off as ‘science’ . . . A field where this is possible is in dire straits indeed.”