Entire books you say.

Yes, even ones that are expressly critical of the policies.

In Covid's Wake is a rather famous recent example. The authors are both professors at a prestigious university. They were interviewed by all sorts of outlets, including left leaning outlets. The idea that doing a cost-benefit analysis of various covid policies would get academics expelled from the academy is just not based in fact.

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analog8374 9 hours ago | parent [-]

My first criticism is the unity of popular opinion. (Ironic, yes). I see this majority, holding the exact same opinion, offering the exact same arguments in support of that opinion, implementing that opinion in exactly the same way. In lockstep.

There's a definite lack of natural chaos.

That's fishy. That reeks of a finely crafted propaganda campaign.

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UncleMeat 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have no idea what is going on here.

The claim above seemed to have been that professors who went against particular narratives regarding transgender affirmation and public health efforts surrounding covid were silenced or even expelled from the academy. This is just observably not the case. Some sense that the academy demands absolute conformity to left wing positions is something people often say but it is ill supported.

	▲	analog8374 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's what mathematicians refer to as a "tangent".

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immibis 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't. I see lots of arguments. You're engaging in one right now. COVID arguing was Reddit's most popular subreddit, back before Reddit was an AI slopfest.

Is it possible that the majority opinion is the correct one and the majority arguments are the reasons why it's correct? I mean, that's how it works with the blue sky, round earth, and fiber optic internet narratives.

	▲	analog8374 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Irrc, dissent from the official narrative about covid on reddit got culled with extreme prejudice. And the protofascistic multitudes were overjoyed to play along.