If you need to be agreeable and not rock the boat too much to get tenure in the first place, you're unlikely to do it once you get tenure either. The system selects both on politics and temperament.
Because controversial now is roughly equivalent to not left-wing, and most professors are either left-wing or correctly fear the peer retribution (bias in reviewing, grants, etc.).https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/969641831582453760 …
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primal poly appears to think he isn't taken seriously because he is controversial rather than lightweight
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