Agreed. We're always more interested when people speak up against "their own" than when criticism comes from outsiders. Football players speaking up about thei

Agreed. We're always more interested when people speak up against "their own" than when criticism comes from outsiders. Football players speaking up about their head injuries? That's a better story than some tenured professor writing from his lab. Employees blowing the whistle on their employer's bad practices, teachers arguing against tenure policies, police calling out police abuse or racism – these are all compelling narratives. Of course, ideally, we'd look to the quality of the argument and the strength of the evidence, but an insider account gives us the mental shortcut to think "this one knows what they're talking about, and they don't have a clear motivation to disparage their own."