<p>Well…on the plus side, the Koch Brothers funded a study using a scientist who was a global warming denier to see if global warming existed.</p>
<p>And after studying the issue, the scientist changed his mind and said his study shows there is human caused global warming. </p>
<p>Its a start.</p>
<p>If conservatives think that college education today is too liberal there is nothing stopping them from founding and operating their own conservative universities. Unfortunately when conservatives create a college it usually turns out to be a Bible school.</p>
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<p>Yeah, the scientist changed his mind, but I don’t think the Koch brothers did.</p>
<p>No…</p>
<p>The Koch Brothers didn’t switch.</p>
<p>I think there is a misconception that liberal thought in academia is all that different from conservative thought. It isn’t. That is why conservatives do not need separate colleges. That most profs are liberal and biased could be the reason that conservatives don’t make the grades and get the mentors/sponsors to shepard them into the academia track.</p>
<p>I just looked up the Mother Jones article. Makes me mad and I can’t see how it is legal to fund these institutions of no education. You can’t argue with stupid, uneducated people. I guess that makes them easier to control. Jindal is an idiot. Watch the GOP make him their VP candidate. I’d LMAO.</p>
<p>Bay:</p>
<p>What’s your evidence for the claim that liberal professors give conservative students lower grades?</p>
<p>^^or
.<em>* Liberals do control the media, or the show business, or the academia, among other institutions, because, apart from a few areas in life (such as business) where countervailing circumstances may prevail, liberals control all institutions.</em> They control the institutions because liberals are on average more intelligent than conservatives and thus they are more likely to attain the highest status in any area of (evolutionarily novel) modern life*</p>
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<p>I sure hope that was defined in this study because that means different things to different people.</p>
<p>Polar scribe,</p>
<p>I don’t have any evidence other than the OP’s article. I was speculating, which is why I used the phrase ‘could be.’</p>
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That’s a completely ridiculous and politically charged statement.</p>
<p>Politically charged, yes. But I do believe it’s quite true.</p>
<p>I’ve lived long enough to know that labels are no help at all. At best they’re misleading … and at worst they interfere with the free exchange of ideas.</p>
<p>I’m caucasian … but I’m not a white supremacist. Does that make me Liberal? Conservative? Libertarian? Something else? Logic demands that since I hold opinions I must be some political persuasion or another.</p>
<p>Like it or not, the terms “Liberal” and “Conservative” have lost their power to predict the policy views of individuals. But the terms sure are excellent for political pejorative.</p>
<p>Labels did not loose any meanning whatsoever. Especially for those who are a bit more familiar with what is going on outside of USA and who influence what and how and when they done (and doing) it. The division is very clear. There are historical references and there are certain consequences of these differences that have happened all over Earth.</p>
<p>Each time I see Jindal, my reaction is “Brown graduate?!”
Hmm, I think that, in itself, is a small show that big ol’ liberal insitutions can foster growth in conservatives.</p>
<p>Threads about liberal “bias” in profs so often focus on the mean liberal prof who doesn’t give that dear conservative kid a fair chance to disagree. But, what about the kid’s part in this? College is about honing critical thinking, analytical, research skills, etc, and broadening knowledge. The kid who comes in with a fixed mindset and refuses to consider other perspectives, is missing the chance to learn- and to possibly deepen his own convictions.</p>
<p>“Labels did not loose any meanning whatsoever. Especially for those who are a bit more familiar with what is going on outside of USA and who influence what and how and when they done (and doing) it. The division is very clear. There are historical references and there are certain consequences of these differences that have happened all over Earth.”</p>
<p>Could we have that again please, without all the code?</p>
<p>“College is about honing critical thinking” - College is primarily for brain wash. Not realising it might cause a huge problem. I told my younger kid, stay away from any political discussions, do not participate, they are all very very biased. I believe that we did a bit better with the younger one after knowing what is going on from the older’s experience. It is really bad, lots of money is chanelled into it more so to the Ivy/Elite colleges and results are very obvious.</p>
<p>Sorry cannot make it clear, not allowed.</p>
<p>Perhaps now we can have the context:</p>
<p>[14</a> Wacky “Facts” Kids Will Learn in Louisiana’s Voucher Schools | Mother Jones](<a href=“http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/07/photos-evangelical-curricula-louisiana-tax-dollars]14”>14 Wacky “Facts” Kids Will Learn in Louisiana’s Voucher Schools – Mother Jones)</p>
<p>Looking forward,
Why do you assume that conservative students don’t consider all viewpoints? I don’t see how conservative students can graduate from college (at rates higher than liberals, supposedly) without having to regurgitate the liberal viewpoints of their profs. That they remain conservative may speak to higher critical thinking skills, as opposed to rote memory or indoctrination.</p>