Universities evolved from seminaries, and still serve the function of cultivating orthodoxy. I don’t think this is solvable. Every field has its own orthodoxies, aside from R/D politics. Hilbert in math, Quantum in physics, Skinner in psych, etc. Each of these doctrines has big problems and solid counterarguments, but nobody gets published or tenured for heresy.

Despite this, most profs manage to avoid serious bias, and plain facts do get represented pretty well in textbooks, even in fields where the publicly visible noise is Woke. (I speak from immediate experience!)

I’ll be interested to read your book on prisons. Is it up to the point of having a title and publisher yet?