Preconditions: 1) Gatekeeper power is near-absolute & can be exercised opaquely & with little consequence 2) Certain axioms or precedents are held in such high regard — esp if self-reinforcing through top-down info transfer — that disagreement is assumed to reflect low competencehttps://twitter.com/olivertraldi/status/1154942572802039809 …
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AFAICT, precondition 1 is the accepted norm within academic institutions & precondition 2, though not a given, seems to be a very predictable way for the chips to fall within ultra status-oriented hierarchies. I think maybe institutional academia trusted itself too much
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