[GauntletWizard]

I am unconvinced of my views, and interested in evidence the contrary. The modern academic journal paper is not evidence, it is one step below a newspaper opinion piece. The most obvious piece of evidence, among many, of academics descent into psychopathy, is the recent firing of Harvard president Claudine Gay, who was ultimately not fired for the obvious errors in her study, but for plagiarism that amounted somewhere between a clerical error and her having it zero original thoughts. She was fired as a scapegoat, not because she had lost the faith of any of her peers, whose Faith is thereby rendered meaningless.

[yCombLinks]

Any honest reading of Harvard's Academic Integrity policy will show Gay's work was in violation.

[GauntletWizard]

I don't deny that she was in violation, but if the firing had been genuine, it would have been concurrent with an investigation into academic fraud, at several levels.

She had to be fired, that was clearly the only option. It also should have raised the question of how she got the job in the first place.