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> The idea that academics are on the right path has turned from something that must be continuously demonstrated to something that is assumed by default [...]

You're talking about a Ph.D. level investigation, not something that is usually considered at the level of an undergraduate in the US.

Most beginners lack the contextual knowledge to recognize even glaring errors. For example, I once saw a distributed application that occasionally updated a central database without any locking. Occasionally the data would get corrupted by simultaneous writes, and the original dev had no idea why.

Consider adding more context if you want to continue to write about dogma in academia. Share your own experence. At the level of generality you are writing it's impossible to engage more because we don't share the same context.