this restores my faith very slightly. at least someone has actually noticed! it absolutely could not be more obvious, from the sheer fact of unanimity, that this group of psychologists polled by haidt, believes only because of social cohesion among their demographic, that is for no reasons related to the truth of what they believe. any academic conference would yield the same result. what's really annoying in the case of profs is that they will then also continuously assert that anyone who disagrees is irrational or impervious to evidence. har har. you have to experience the unanimity, the pressure, the extreme arrogance all at once - that is, you have to be a member of the group who doesn't hop on the consensus - actually to see what this means and how it is enforced. as i say, these folks are supposed to be educators and experts. you'd be better off with the rankest group of rednecks, where there is a lot more diversity of opinion, much more capacity for independent thought, much more tolerance for diversity.