It's more than that, I think. Sibling-thread poster hit the nail on the head when he complained of politicised science.

The social sciences have this dominating and silencing effect on the rest of the sciences.

There's always been junk science, and when found out it gets discredited. This is still happening and is a good thing.

What's new is that any research that might produce results counter to the what the PC-mob deems acceptable is attacked. Whether or not there is consensus amongst researchers in that field is irrelevant when the mob calls for the firing of any researcher who doesn't toe the current political party-line.

Sure, we're not actually in the dark ages, but a trend of silencing voices in the name of purity of thought is particularly troubling, especially as the mob asking for this is unashamedly attempting to implement NewsSpeak[1].

[1] See the argument in yesterdays threads about what "man" and "woman" mean, and should dictionaries be changed, etc.