this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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We're already seeing it now, but any and all storehouses of previously uncontroversial institutional knowledge will just get labeled "liberal" over time.
It happened to Wikipedia, it happened even to the weather, it's happening to nutrition, and given enough time it will start happening to things like astronomy, air traffic control, earthquake detection, scuba diving, etc.