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If you're working in a politically salient science (like sociology and biology), then you gotta examine the most dissident-coded positions as well as the currently most popular ones. If you haven't studied "cranks" comprehensively, you're probably underestimating their reliance on the mainstream.

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Like it or not, elitist "cranks" are more ascendant than ever, and your beloved institutions and disciplines aren't safe unless they support them. They're using widespread untruths (conceptual and empirical) and mistakes, and taking them to "honest" conclusions. You wanna stop that? Then fight it.

Point is that the "politically extreme" and "populist" assholes aren't just "those freaks over there". Their masters run the show now. Whatever doesn't support them is getting buried under mountains of bullshit that does support them, and it's mostly recycled and extended "reputable" "science".