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some of them have left to join the conservative think tanks because they are the only place that will welcome researchers who do not toe the PC party line.



I think you lost me there. Comparing the nation's research universities to think tanks is comparing apples to oranges. The think tanks don't "do" any hard science. Their research is in public policy. They concern themselves with politics, not science. Why would geochemists, climatologists, or paleobiologists who research climate change work for a think tank? There are no labs there for them to work in. What's even more puzzling is why would anyone throw paint at them?

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. -Nietzsche