re: #70 Obdicut
Your view of academia resembles the humanities much more than it does the hard sciences.
I speak from experience at the ragged edge of the humanities in finance/economics, so you’re right. Still, I’m guessing the faculty who build up their CV in neurology or particle physics are not political or subject to intrigues and stratagems. AGW and GM food research? Vague data + money = shenanigans. Now you people are making me late for work.