{"id":16382,"date":"2016-08-31T11:53:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=16382"},"modified":"2016-08-31T11:53:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T15:53:37","slug":"why-democrats-outnumber-republicans-121-as-college-professors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=16382","title":{"rendered":"Why Democrats outnumber Republicans 12:1 as college professors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/article97210447.html\">Denial is not just a river in Egypt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The essence of his argument is that 43% of Republicans don&#8217;t believe in evolution, therefore all are unqualified to be professors.  He is in charge of recruiting at UNC&#8217;s medical school.<\/p>\n<p>Things to consider:<br \/>\n&#8211; the filtering out of Conservatives starts long before people get their PhD and want a job as a professor<br \/>\n&#8211; many professors are not teaching science and their beliefs about science are irrelevant<br \/>\n&#8211; the population of what all Republicans believe does not indicate what any one individual believes.  That is the classic definition of prejudice<br \/>\n&#8211; 42% of all Americans are creationists, so just as many Democrats don&#8217;t believe in science<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/170822\/believe-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx\">Gallup survey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denial is not just a river in Egypt The essence of his argument is that 43% of Republicans don&#8217;t believe in evolution, therefore all are unqualified to be professors. He is in charge of recruiting at UNC&#8217;s medical school. Things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=16382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16383,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16382\/revisions\/16383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}