[W]e have gone from, “Liberals deny science, too!” to “Some sociologists are skeptical of certain evidence-free assertions that have been made by evolutionary psychologists.” That’s quite a let-down. Frankly, my impression is that a majority of biologists also reject a lot of the specific claims that have been made in the literature of evolutionary psychology. Science-deniers all, apparently.

What’s especially ridiculous about this is that’s not actually so hard to find instances of liberal science denial. Much of the skepticism of vaccination comes from the left, as does much of the hysteria over GMO’s. It’s not controversial that the mere presentation of scientific data is generally ineffective against deeply held biases, and liberals have those biases just as surely as conservatives do.