It is difficult to continue this conversation productively because the nature of your claim is such that you will not want to give examples to back it up or to clarify what you mean. The only solution that I can think of is to continue the conversation via private messages. I publicly promise to keep the contents of such a conversation private. (I also extend this offer to sam0345.)
ETA: My impression of you from reading your comments leads me to expect that such a conversation would be dispassionate and to-the-point.
It is difficult to continue this conversation productively because the nature of your claim is such that you will not want to give examples to back it up or to clarify what you mean.
There are lots of areas where I can give examples of stuff that used to be unmentionable in academia, such as the frequent revisions of the history of the Soviet Union.
Which examples imply that there is lots of stuff that is still unmentionable in academia—and what is unmentionable in academia is for the most part unmentionable on LW.
It is difficult to continue this conversation productively because the nature of your claim is such that you will not want to give examples to back it up or to clarify what you mean. The only solution that I can think of is to continue the conversation via private messages. I publicly promise to keep the contents of such a conversation private. (I also extend this offer to sam0345.)
ETA: My impression of you from reading your comments leads me to expect that such a conversation would be dispassionate and to-the-point.
There are lots of areas where I can give examples of stuff that used to be unmentionable in academia, such as the frequent revisions of the history of the Soviet Union.
Which examples imply that there is lots of stuff that is still unmentionable in academia—and what is unmentionable in academia is for the most part unmentionable on LW.