It is one evidence of how sweeping was this establishment of independent territories that the ideal of academic freedom now emerged as the most sacred of all principles within the new academic professions. (firstthings.com)
Moreover, the natural scientific model for research that dominated the new academic profession proclaimed, as we shall see, the irrelevance of religious belief. (firstthings.com)
The scientific, economic, policy or academic professions require a peer - reviewed process for postulating theories. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)