Academic Decay—From Hoax Papers to Race Mobs
February 4, 2026
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as posted by the channelPeter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Bret Weinstein reveal how American academia has transformed from a truth-seeking institution into an engine of ideological absurdity and mob enforcement. The Grievance Studies Affair—in which hoax papers on topics like “fat bodybuilding” sailed through peer review because they affirmed the approved narrative—and the Evergreen State College meltdown, where students mobbed professor Bret Weinstein for objecting to racial segregation while administrators surrendered control of the campus, show how deep the rot runs through our universities. Once speech is treated as violence and debate is replaced by fear, academic culture slides from intellectual capture into outright radicalization, where conformity is rewarded, disagreement is forbidden, and truth is no longer a constraint.
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