You wouldn't want a bloodletter teaching in Med School, would you?

It seems every conservative political writer you read from on the web thinks that there is a huge "Liberal Bias" in university level education. David Horowitz is the prime example of this type of defective thinker. It's hard for him to go more than a week on FrontPageMag without another ridiculous, whiny rant about this so called bias. The puppets over at Students For Academic Freedom have an entire site dedicated to attempting to force colleges into teaching backwards conservative politics. In their so-called Academic Bill of Rights the SAF details a tragically hilarious list of "rights" they think should be pushed on academia. Some of the funnier highlights:

"2. No faculty member will be excluded from tenure, search and hiring committees on the basis of their political or religious beliefs."

"6. Selection of speakers, allocation of funds for speakers programs and other student activities will observe the principles of academic freedom and promote intellectual pluralism."

Taken word for word, neither of those statements is contentious in the least, but then you have to consider the source. You see, when they SAY they want pluralism, what they MEAN is they want to get rid of progressives and replace them by conservatives. And when they SAY they don't want professors discriminated against based on ideology they are hopelessly hypocritical in that they claim the progressives in academia are somehow dangerous because of their beliefs.

Consider this: Would you want a professor teaching future doctors in med school only how to use leeches and bloodletting? No? Well, all the other professors are teaching modern medicine, so it's only fair that this man be allowed to teach outdated medieval medicine regardless of how ineffective it is PURELY because professors of that methodology are underrepresented in medical schools. I mean you have GOT to have differing opinions at the university or else it's just not fair, right?

How about in biological sciences? In the sake of fairness you have just GOT to have some clown teaching Creationism instead of Evolution. Who cares if it is a woefully outdated and religious school of "thought", it's all about putting people with those viewpoints in as professors for the sake of so-called fairness.

Well, that's the reason why Conservatives are greatly underrepresented at the university level compared to Progressives. Conservative thought is equally outdated and useless in the political arena as Creationism is in Biology, and Bloodletting/Leeching is in Medicine. The mind is a terrible thing to waste... on backwards conservative thinking.