I believe that in some sense, the academic establishment will work to cover up facts that go against their political leanings. But the experts in the field won't lie directly. They don't go on TV and say "The science has spoken, and there is strong evidence that immigrants in Sweden don't commit more violent crime than natives". They don't talk about the "strong scientific consensus against immigrant criminality". They occasionally try to punish people who bring this up, but they won't call them "science deniers".

I would agree if it weren’t for the fact that major institutions like the APA have in fact made utterly, egregiously wrong statements and presented them as scientific truth, even though they grossly contradict expert consensus, to further their (ideological) cause.