Yes there are competing theories, but these disagreements are only of degree not kind. I said no meaningful disagreements. I lived through this, and there are

Yes there are competing theories, but these disagreements are only of degree not kind. I said no meaningful disagreements. I lived through this, and there are probably more than a few post-academics around here who know what I'm talking about. We tried and discovered for all their prattling about being anti-status quo and counter-whatever, they are really quite interested in suppressing ideas, and are stuck in the past. In the humanities you're stuck with some flavor of critical theory. If you're not on board with that at a fundamental level, no tenure, no advisor, no papers; the end. In the sciences, physics for instance. Don't like string theory? Did you want to be a non theoretical physicist? Sorry, no room for competition around here for the inane bullshit that can't even be wrong. No grant money. No experiments either. Those might prove it all wrong. There's no room for change or growth in the modern academy because it's been captured by hucksters and charlatans who are at least cunning enough to keep out the competition.