i've brought this up to academics for over a decade at this point and 99% of them brush it off and say it's no big deal. i found one guy that desperately tried to debunk basic facts like most of social science isn't reproducible and he eventually told me straight up - "it's wrong to criticize academia because that's helps flat-earthers and anti-vaxxers. academics are in ponzi-scheme cult and they all know it. the extreme dismissals of the replication crisis, something that if any company found out would result in complete overhaul, dismissing and denying it make it abundantly clear that academics lie to themselves about the insane system they're in order to keep receiving a paycheck.  the experts agree most of modern science is bullshit yet most academics refuse to admit it so it's clear that academics aren't experts
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