Ah, modern academia. It used to be just “science”. Now it’s “our science” and “their science”. My observation is academia has become so insular that the academics existing in the corresponding echo chamber have become so emotionally weak that they fear anything that doesn’t follow the “accepted” narrative. Rather than address the real data, they choose to criticize, denigrate, and split hairs.
For a long time, Universities have depended on revenue from research grants, which means that their research is NOT ALLOWED TO offend the grant committees, federal and otherwise.
The fastest way to get cut off from federal funds is to have research findings which contradict the Woke narrative.