I would argue that the degree to which we value honesty and truth has slipped a lot in the last decade, or at least it has done in our epistemological instituti

I would argue that the degree to which we value honesty and truth has slipped a lot in the last decade, or at least it has done in our epistemological institutions (journalism, academia, etc). I think it may be caused by ideological homogeneity (the folks who might call a social scientist on their ideological bias are too marginalized to matter). This is fortunately a tractable problem with a clear solution: promote viewpoint diversity.