If you read: >If Google "guarantees" your funding as long as you write the things they want written, you have a significant incentive to look upon them favorab

If you read: >If Google "guarantees" your funding as long as you write the things they want written, you have a significant incentive to look upon them favorably. as a type of discrediting due to the source of the "guarantee" on funding, then: >As an academic, you live or die by your funding. implies that all live academics are funded. Funding must come from somewhere with some form of guarantee. If we can generalize Google to stand in for any other source of funding, then you have constructed an argument that discredits all live academics.