Before you dismiss this as truth-challenged partisans who want recognition of their unjustifiable views, read this.  There is a pretty compelling case to be made that a lot of important questions facing us today are being studied by a relatively politically homogenous group of people, and beliefs not rigorously supported by evidence nonetheless become orthodoxy. A monoculture of thought on questions that are far from settled: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&#x2F;problems&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;heterodoxacademy.org&#x2F;problems&#x2F;</a>