And . . . offspring just got a $500/person check in the mail with letter from DJT that it is a refund for being ripped off by Biden. Seems to be sent to people who bought marketplace health insurance without subsidies. Just before election. Did people know this was coming?
![The question is not whether sociologists lean left. On average, they do, as do universities in general. The question is whether, as a result, American sociologists are lowering their standards of rigor. If they are not, to criticize them on the basis of their personal political
views is precisely what we mean when we point to politicization. Rubin’s report — and not mainstream journal sociology —
displays all the hallmarks of politicization. She rejects
others not because their arguments are inconsistent, their data cherry picked, their analyses unsystematic [for which she provides no evidence, and ignores contradictory evidence]. Instead, she rejects those whose politics she dislikes, and supports this with
arguments that are inconsistent, data cherry that are picked, and
analyses that are unsystematic.
If this report is any indication of the degree of methodological rigor, neutrality, and objectivity that is to follow if administrators now pressure sociology departments to approach the vision that
Rubin has for sociology, it will involve a dramatic decrease, not
increase, in its scientific qualities.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vezvdmidyzefmsowhcqqcqjx/bafkreigyai6vbpborj4awkd3u4slmzmlllbf6sfo7xgl6v3xcdtuoinr7y)
