Ideological corruption of science: Is the right always wrong?
Many scientific facts, such as the distance of the sun from the earth or the constituents of a cell, are simply facts. They elicit no special passion other, perhaps, than delight in their existence. But others, such as the existence of cognitive differences between men and women or between identifiable groups, do excite destructive passions that have led many to attempt to suppress the facts and banish those who draw attention to them. The Catholic church once attempted to suppress the heliocentric theory and later Christian churches made attempts to do the same to Darwinian evolution. In recent times, the Christian church is much more tolerant, but its place been taken by hyper-egalitarian race-and gender-obsessed groups on the Left which has thus become the chief political opponent of both the practice and the findings of science.
