[actionfromafar]

There was probably motivated reasoning with the snail darter, but to call it outright fraud is a bit rich. The hypothesis was proven wrong with technology we didn't have access to in 1973. (Re [1])

It's also kind of funny to me that "all academics are far left". I'd love to hear more about that.

Regarding what is critical to preserve, I don't know. Maybe some laws should be changed or amended.

[1]: https://yibs.yale.edu/news/fish-center-key-conservation-figh...

[qcnguy]

There's lots of info about academic far leftism out there. This article is a decade old now (the problem is surely now far worse) but the trend in the graph is clear:

https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/professors-moved-left-but-...

That's an average of self reported views, in a culture where everyone tells each other they're totally moderate and neutral. The problem is less serious in engineering subjects. In non-engineering subjects, far leftism is pretty much homogenous.