Based Quote by Thomas E. Mann

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

— Philip Kitcher

When a political party denies scientific facts, then by all means, they should be called out on their anti-science stance.

— Gad Saad

“If we care about knowledge, freedom, and peace, then we need to stake a strong claim: anyone can believe anything, but liberal science—open-ended, depersonalized…

— Jonathan Rauch

“Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime…

— Victor Hugo

“Reality has a well-known liberal bias. More generally, the right spent a lot of time and money building an alternative reality. Think of a…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“There is nothing truthful, wise, humane, or strategic about confusing hostility to injustice and oppression, which is leftist, with hostility to science and rationality,…

— Michael Albert

The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -…

— Larry Laudan

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

— Tammy Baldwin

“All of which is proof that conservatives can have honest differences of opinion on policy matters, among themselves and with others—or be open to…

— Jeff Flake

A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development.

— Milton Friedman

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics are the divine science, after all,

— John Adams