Part of this is because the modern academy holds thinkers who are just as fraudulent in high regard today, and they are unwilling to hold them accountable. exh

Part of this is because the modern academy holds thinkers who are just as fraudulent in high regard today, and they are unwilling to hold them accountable. exhibit A (by far the worst): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan exhibit B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deleuze_and_Guattari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deleuze_and_Guattari exhibit C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek exhibit D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung exhibit E: All Chiropractors Most of the academy holds Freud, and most of his followers in very high regard despite zero of his analysis being reproducible, falsifiable, replicatable, or coherent. Modern social sciences are infected with a modern version of Lysenkoism.