Book purchases of liberals and conservatives reveal partisan division
Monday, April 3, 2017 - 10:33
in Biology & Nature
Reader preferences for liberal or conservative political books also attract them to different types of science books, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Chicago and Yale and Cornell universities. The result supports observations that the divisiveness of politics in the United States has spread to scientific communication as well, endangering the role of science as politically neutral ground.