I just don't think there's any denying academics have decided they're no longer or academic institutions centers of excellence pursuing truth that they're engineers of a political orthodoxy. And that that political orthodoxy sometimes is very fragile and wants to accept a certain truth or pursuit of the truth as long as it aligns with the political orthodoxy that overwhelms 90 plus percent of the views of people who are drawn to academia.
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Jacob Bronowski — The Common Sense of Science
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