Huh? I'm not claiming that these topics should be off-limits; I'm saying that the actual existing departments presently studying them are rotten. In short I'm

Huh? I'm not claiming that these topics should be off-limits; I'm saying that the actual existing departments presently studying them are rotten. In short I'm not sure we're disagreeing here. Edit: If you like, you can replace my use of "fields and subfields" above with "departments and segments of such". That's probably fairer in other ways, too.