>It's the modern equivalent of disallowing any research that conflicts with the bible, for example. It's ideology being put above all else. It can be religious

>It's the modern equivalent of disallowing any research that conflicts with the bible, for example. It's ideology being put above all else. It can be religious or non-religious. You don't need to look much further than Stalin's Russia. Lysenkoism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism?wprov=sfla1 ) was the nonsense hoops that academics had to jump in order to align with the Ideology of the Russian state. Those who aligned their work efforts to the ideology were rewarded, promoted and those who didn't ended up much worse. We don't have this extreme level here in Western countries, but we are starting to see the seeds of it. It's nice to see MIT standing up against this. Stanford seems to be all for ideology.