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 '''Academic freedom''' refers not merely to the formal right of scholars to speak without punishment, but to a broader system of intellectual independence that enables genuine innovation, dissent, and cross-disciplinary thought. Eric Weinstein argues that while academia claims to protect freedom of inquiry, its institutional structures, funding mechanisms, and social norms have evolved towards systematic suppression of unconventional ideas and marginalization of independent thinkers.
-== Broader Context ==
-Weinstein sees Academic Freedom as a civilizational issue: without the ability to question orthodoxy, societies lose the capacity for self-correction and innovation.  He frames suppression of intellectual dissent as an existential threat to science, economics, and culture, warning that bureaucratic stagnation and distributed suppression lead to epistemic decay ([https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1233846760509865985 Feb 29, 2020]).
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