> Sometimes outsiders notice what's happening but over time academia has built up a complex web of lore that protects them psychologically The word you're look

> Sometimes outsiders notice what's happening but over time academia has built up a complex web of lore that protects them psychologically The word you're looking for is "triangulation" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation_(social_science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation_(social_science) As long as you can find [1] a few [2] citations [3] that kind of all point in the same kind of direction then you're good!