The Catholic Church had nothing on the religious zealotry of academia since the 50s. They conned and completely made up almost every social narrative that exists today while claiming some mystical data source that either never existed or was tortured into compliance. This is how sociology and “soft sciences” (pseudoscience) became the forefront of academia, they were placed there by both the neocons and the communists.

This is also why peer review instead of replication became widespread. Everyone argued it was cost, but it was always about creating ideological barriers. It’s also why pure nonsense gets published. Think of how many medical journals put out pure hit pieces during Covid over ivermectin and natural immunity, or how many put out TDS statements. There’s no integrity in science anymore and that’s why they’re terrified of public datasets. Covid datasets were the crack in the dam, people started realizing the experts had no clue what they were saying and were just regurgitating paid talking points and tried hiding data or flat out lied about the numbers.