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A framework describing the uncritical acceptance of academic authority—the belief that what is taught in universities, published in top journals, or held by tenured professors is automatically true, and that any challenge is simply ignorance or ideological bias. Academspiracy theory treats the academy as a unified source of wisdom rather than a contested site of knowledge production. It dismisses critique from outside as “unqualified” and critique from inside as “career suicide” for good reason. It functions as a gatekeeping ideology.
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