Self-censorship in academics

There was recently a lol paper covering some of our work, and now there is another one!

The second one takes delusions to such a level it makes even Soviets proud. Aaron Ponofsky — whose video I posted on before — is fair  in comparison. There is also a video presentation by first author John Jackson where he is even more embarrassing:

The video has been set to “unlisted” so it won’t show up in a search, and they might delete it entirely later, so here’s an archive just in case.

Doctor Science Adam is of course on the spot:

While this taboo has of course been widely reported on in various outlets, even by leftists, numbers are better! I don’t know of any good numbers, but there are two surveys I collected on Twitter last year (first, and second):

Simple analysis of the data: