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Of course, there are frauds in any industry/profession.

But in my experience (math, science, & engineering), it is actually far less prevalent than in other places.

Forget the overzealous #sciencetwitter people. I have found that academia is one of the rare places where people the absolute top of their field who are often actually modest & aware of their ignorance about most things.

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>I have found that academia is one of the rare places where people the absolute top of their field who are often actually modest & aware of their ignorance about most things.

This view doesn't really align with designing public policy - while those people exist - they aren't the problem (or are insofar they aren't voicing their positions loud enough).

Coming from a place of modesty and acknowledging limitations is not the "believe science" movement.

Agreed. But I wanted to point out that the “believe science” people are not actually representative of most researchers in academic institutions.

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