Indoctrination, 101

Prof. Blanchard's post on the left's uneasy relationship with Darwin reminds of a panel I once attended at a political science conference.  The panel was peopled by those who teach women's studies and the subject was something along the lines of "New Ideas In The Teaching Of Women's Studies."  At one point one of the panelists mentioned the revolution in social biology.  The panelist said something like this: "There have been interesting findings in social biology recently about the ways in which brain chemistry and genetics determine our behavior.  These new findings shed light on male and female differences and how individual and social difference may be grounded in biology, not social construction.  These are remarkable findings which may revolutionize how we think about gender...and so we have to make sure our students never hear of this research."  The presenter was just that blunt.  This says much about academia, especially the academic left, and the anti-intellectualism of those disciplines most wedded to certain political assumptions which, due to the ideological nature of the discipline, cannot be challenged.