If an academic gives up an opinion on which his
> academic status is built, he or she is pretty much finished,
> especially is he or she plays the academic celebrity game.
>
Really? I know little about academia, but that sounds like a pretty miserable existence. You guys can't change your minds? What happens when you're wrong? You have to spend the rest of your careers lying about your honest opinions?
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