A commenter at this site relays the following astonishing correspondence with Edward “the Vast Leftwing Conspiracy is Out to Get Me” Feser. The commenter sent Feser the following e-mail mocking Feser’s paranoid fantasies:

>From: srobert@met.utah.edu
>To: edwardfeser@hotmail.com
>Subject: Science and the Left
>Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:43:42 -0700 (MST)
>
>Thanks for the enlightening article on the campus domination of the left.
>
>As a student in the PhD program in Atmospheric Science, it is required
>that none of my research support any right-wing causes. If my results do
>not support anti-business/pro-environment causes, they are rejected out of hand. Because of the domination of the left in our program, I was unable
>to procede with my research that showed the ozone hole never existed and that global warming is a myth created by wacko liberals whose sole goal is to bring down big business, simply because of their hate for capitalism.
>
>I hope someday to do science and let the results speak for themsleves and not be influenced by political motivation. Maybe a little too idealistic?
>

Alas, Feser, whose ignorance of other fields is apparently unbounded, didn’t get the joke and replied:

“Hi, many thanks for your kind words about my article, and good luck with
fulfilling your dream of doing honest science. Don’t let yourself be discouraged or worry that it’s too idealistic—you can never go wrong trying to do the right thing.

Best,
EF

Edward Feser
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA”