The last form of dishonest use of academic output I want to talk about is one that exploded as a huge problem when the COVID pandemic hit: subject-matter specialists using the guise of expertise in an effort to impose their values and policy preferences on the public. This phenomenon isn't limited to universities — some of the medical and public health professionals doing this were on faculties, some were at hospitals, some worked for the government, and some just posted a lot on Twitter. But I’ll simply say that several years of hearing “Science Says” prior to claims that weren’t science as such, but rather were applications of scientific claims through a very specific value framework I didn’t share — part-communitarian, part-neurotic, part-left wing — made me feel more negatively about experts, including those at universities, and I’m far from alone in that sentiment.