THIS!!!
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That's not fair. With any good application of science you also understand and question your foundations. You see this happening in physics now: there are a lot of competing ideas for emergence of gravity, dark matter and dark energy, because the prevailing ideas don't fully satisfy.
It’s not supposed to be fair but to be true. Which it is. Anecdotal evidence doesn’t invalidate this observation
Fair has nothing to do with it. It’s simply true.
I'm talking about the statement not being a fair representation.
I believe it absolutely is by my experience in academia. The culture is generally very authoritative, insecure, and closed minded. There are of course exceptions, but they are *exceptions,* not the rule.
My mother is in academia, and I know tons of people who work in and with academia who all feel largely the same way. So I don’t say this arbitrarily or with some vague social media image as to what the environment is.