Oppose excessive spending and government run health care? You’re racist, hypocritical, and dumb. That’s what Religious Studies professor Scott Paeth of DePaul says at least. He constantly rants about his views for socialist healthcare and name calls and trashes any form of conservatism, while using his professorial title to lend credence to these rants. Not the worst of the worst, but still is able to find his rightful place on the list.

He even entertains the possibility that there are few conservative voices in academia because he feels those views are uneducated and wrong, thus this bias favoring the left is a good thing. He writes:

"Do we really want a system that will allow anybody to make a claim that they have a "right" to teach in the university system, simply because their viewpoint isn't represented?"

Furthermore to elaborate he then cites Brian Lieter, "That there are relatively few Republicans in the universities may simply be co-extensional with the fact that there are relatively few educated people who believe that Iraq attacked the World Trade Center, a belief, as we know, that is widely shared among Bush supporters. Surely this possibility has to be entertained, if one were really serious about the question of bias."

What about his courses? His business ethics course texts aside from the textbook are the following: Economic Justice for All, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the American Meal, and Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. There appears to be a one sided trend here. 

Activist over Academic Index: 2.9 of 5

Radical Left Index: 3.7

Overall Risk: 3.3

Areas of concern: Respect for opposing views and Socialism

See Scotts open views here: 

http://scottpaeth.typepad.com/main/2009/04/tax-day-tea-parties-and-stupidity.html

http://scottpaeth.typepad.com/

http://scottpaeth.blogspot.com/

http://condor.depaul.edu/~spaeth/Business%20Ethics.pdf