Exactly.

I think sincere recognition of the situation is good, but somehow in the obvious cases in which harsh or irrelevant or self-defeating comments take place you have to wonder about the reason and cause of that. And the options for actions will depend on the hypothesis, just as analysis in science is supposed to be carried on.

Celebrating the successes of your colleagues down the hall is a great point! This is something that great departments do and dysfunctional departments do not.

Academics are free to rail against what they see as business practices, and in so doing ignore the scholarship underlying these practices. Similar to the way they ignore the scholarship showing that productivity declines with excessive hours worked.

Sure. One should not take any of this as absolute. I for one have used *gasp!* “It is well known…”

Right, but there are stylistic elements in play. Passive voice all the time is bad. But used sparingly it can break up the monotony of Hemingway app-esque writing.