The academic system requires a minimum degree of good faith conduct. That honor system effectively does not exist in modern western soft sciences, because ideol

The academic system requires a minimum degree of good faith conduct. That honor system effectively does not exist in modern western soft sciences, because ideologues abuse the trust to push their woke agendas with (deliberately?) sloppy science, and the peer review process, thoroughly infiltrated, is unwilling to cast a sufficiently critical eye either for fear of reprisal or out of complicitness. The result of this hijacking is a rigid dogma which manifests as a pseudoscientific justification for the reverse racism that is tearing through western society. That's all before the other deep, systemic issues like perverse incentives and the related replication crisis touched upon in the article. This article is a nice overview of the modern moral panic gripping academia and spilling over into everything else. At this point laypeople are right to question academia as it's once noble purpose has been totally coopted by ascientific progressive politiking.