msironen comments on Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 15 February 2011 10:02:01AM 10 points [-]

On "ideologically charged" science producing good results:

Evolutionary biology, in general. Creationism went down really hard and really quickly.

Comment author: msironen 15 February 2011 12:09:18PM 0 points [-]

Just beat me to it.

I thought evo biology pretty obvious, actually. Maybe OP has some reason for disqualifying it?