Not if they're systematically wrong about everything. There's no need to keep an intellectual disease vector in the academy any more than there would be a moral obligation to open your windows to the malaria mosquitos.
Climate change and medicine are the largest, most visible aspects of this, but it's intellectual dishonesty all the way down.
Note that this has got much worse since about the Obama era. There are no true small-c conservative intellectuals any more.
Not if they're systematically wrong about everything. There's no need to keep an intellectual disease vector in the academy any more than there would be a moral obligation to open your windows to the malaria mosquitos.
Climate change and medicine are the largest, most visible aspects of this, but it's intellectual dishonesty all the way down.
Note that this has got much worse since about the Obama era. There are no true small-c conservative intellectuals any more.