Wow, that article about aerosol transmission gave me scary flashbacks to academia. :) The reason there isn't more acknowledgment by the community comes down to

Wow, that article about aerosol transmission gave me scary flashbacks to academia. :) The reason there isn't more acknowledgment by the community comes down to a variant of survivorship bias. The people who have remained in academia are largely oblivious to the existence of this kind of treatment mainly because it is so effective. Anyone on the receiving end of this kind of political assassination (or even just willful ignorance) doesn't survive in the academic community with a high probability. Even if they do (as we can see from this article and the one it is about), there is no strong incentive to stand up for people who didn't survive it. Those people are no longer in academia and so are not immediately important to anyone still in the academic community.