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I would further add that the credibility of the person performing the "study" is also no longer analyzed which it should be because implicit bias is a serious factor.

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Implicit bias or confirmation bias?

I would say it could be either but none the less bias is a relevant variable that should always be considered. For example, studies on say smoking or the health benefits of a pharmaceutical performed by a tobacco company or big pharma respectively are openly and voraciously discredited as bias which they should be. Anything relating to social justice of any sort is swallowed as irrefutable fact without a second thought or an ounce of critical thinking applied.

It is then regurgitated argumentum ad nauseam and any statistical (read fair and scientific) analysis of the study and its bias are attacked as anti-something, racist, misogynist etc. It is academically and morally corrupt and cannot and should not be allowed. The academic community should be vocally standing against this practice but being that they are afraid to be called a name or slur they swallow it.

People have put their political subscription above everything else and it is sickening.

> People have put their political subscription above everything else and it is sickening.

Agreed.

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