The prejudices inherent to the university and research institution ecosystem. These include disciplinary bias (dismissing questions from outside your field), prestige bias (favoring work from elite institutions), citation cartels, and the tyranny of trendy theory. They govern what knowledge is produced, who gets to produce it, and what gets recognized as legitimate scholarship.
Academic Biases Example: A brilliant paper using unconventional methods is rejected from a top journal. One reviewer's comment reads: "This is not how research is done in this field." This is pure Academic Bias—enforcing methodological conformity not because it's wrong, but because it's unfamiliar, protecting the paradigm and its gatekeepers.
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 4, 2026
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