the whole academic system is so vulnerable to ideological capture, it's hard to believe it wasn't designed that way on purpose.
the entire system is a popularity contest, where approved people get to decide whether a finding is accepted or denied. they pay lip service to reproducibility, but the reality is nobody gives a shit about reproducibility, just whether the approved people like the outcome or not.
the whole academic system is so vulnerable to ideological capture, it's hard to believe it wasn't designed that way on purpose.
the entire system is a popularity contest, where approved people get to decide whether a finding is accepted or denied. they pay lip service to reproducibility, but the reality is nobody gives a shit about reproducibility, just whether the approved people like the outcome or not.
Once the idea of "objectivity" is outed as absurd, the only question is "which world view produces the best results?"