propaganda in research drab<\/a> seriously.\u00a0 Well, because every now and then someone gets it right, that\u2019s why.\u00a0 But boy do we have to plow through the fertilizer to find it.<\/p>\nFWIW, if you read the story, you\u2019ll notice that, as usual, the headline says more than the story.\u00a0 You\u2019ll discover that the researcher himself, one Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia, is far more subdued about what the results indicate than the headline suggests.\u00a0 You\u2019ll also find the obligatory qualifier, buried down toward the end of the story, suggesting that the entire project is baseless and proves nothing at all (though even there, the rebuttal was careful to avoid suggesting that conservatives and\/or ignorant people aren\u2019t obviously more inclined to be prejudiced).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Turns out that a quality, objective research project has shown that ignorant people and conservatives tend to be more prejudiced.\u00a0 There\u2019s a shock.\u00a0 Of course one can\u2019t help but wonder, does this include prejudice against religion?\u00a0 Against religious people?\u00a0 Against Americans?\u00a0 Against whites?\u00a0 What about scientists and\u00a0scholars of yesteryear who promoted racism against Blacks, Jews, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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