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This laxity allows such nonsense to penetrate the fabric of university education, with scholarly "consensus" shaping curricula, policies, and public discourse—regardless of actual validity. The companies of academia, once built to foster open debate and critical thinking, have largely devolved into ideological echo chambers where dissent is punished and any deviation is branded heretical.
The Impact Beyond Academia
Jim and his colleague discuss the wider societal implications. They point to how these fake "studies" infect media, government policy, and corporate practices. The propagation of dubious research incentivizes identity politics, racialized victimhood, and gender theories that are often based on faulty premises or outright fabrication.