[coffeemug]

Brass tacks, if an institution has an overwhelming political leaning toward faction X and works to undermine faction Y, is it really surprising that when Y gets into power it attempts to damage the institution? This is precisely why publicly funded institutions should maintain agnostic political posture.

[shimman]

What fantasy world do you live in? I want to be there, the world I'm everything granted to the public is always under constant attack and threatened to be destroyed and their proponents destroy and their benefactors humiliated.

[pastel8739]

How do you do this when belief in science, which is important to academic institutions, is unpopular with one faction?

[wallst07]

When it no longer becomes science and becomes social. There are MANY examples, even in this thread, of this happening.

[EasyMark]

When and where did this happen before a year and half ago?

[kenferry]

I mean, is it political when you write a paper that concludes that vaccines are effective or that fish die when streams are polluted?

The answer seems to have become "yes", so this is a rhetorical question, but ideally _information_ would be apolitical.

We also see the current administration politicizing things like the federal reserve, which has tried VERY hard to be apolitical.