(Like any honest reactionary, I loathe the [New York] Times. I must give them credit, though, for their coverage of math and science, which is way above that of any other newspaper I know, except the even more politically deplorable London [sic] Guardian, which leads the world in this field. Why can’t conservative newspapers “do” science and math?)
One obvious hypothesis lies in the stereotype of Right and Left attitudes to Science – not that scientists don’t include all political tribes, but the Left believes in the power of Science to Improve Humanity, while the Right’s stereotypical attitude may be summed up with “leave the boffins to their fun” and Thoreau’s “If I knew a man was coming to my house with the fixed intention of doing me good, I would run for my life.” To such a Rightist, science is irrelevant to the function of the mass press, which is to keep an eye on the politicians.
Is that too obvious and stereotypical to be plausible?
(Link from Dave Trowbridge.)
I should explain “London [sic] Guardian“. According to Wikipedia:
I had no idea that Manchester was dropped so early; on another hand it has never been a London paper rather than an “England” paper.