Why Speculate, When You Can Look It Up?  Commenter bdog,
commenting on one of the posts on the badly done study of the
Louisiana Supreme Court, writes:  Why is is it that no one has
bothered to remark on the policitcal affiliations of the Judges?
Without reading either the article or the rebuttal, I would bet
that the accused judges are probably considered 'conservative',
if not actual members of the republican party.  My reasoning?
Simple logic and statistics: Professors are democrat 10-1. Law
students, especially those on the Law Review are probably
democrat by 30-1.(And personally, I would also bet money that on
most Law Reviews, republicans/conservatives aren't represented
at all.) And of course, the lack of attention to detail, like
fact checking, faulty statistical analysis (can anyone say
global warming), are just part and parcel of what is accepted as
scholarship and scientific concensus, as long as it advances the
'correct' agenda.  The editors reviewed the article and it was
just too good to check.