The scary part is that most of the so-called scholars who
compiled the list are actually employed at institutions of
higher learning

Yes, I understand what you're saying.....

and presumably have some sort of influence
on young minds.

I'm not sure we should worry about that. If you believe in democracy,
then you must believe that ordinary people, in the main, and in the
long run, are able to determine what is true and what is not.
Otherwise, democracy is a farce, because all our institutions are
based on that belief.

As John Milton said in the Areopagitica, 1644, "We do Truth an
injustice to seek to protect her, for Truth is powerful, second only
to the Almighty. Whoever heard of Truth being put to the worse, in a
free and open encounter?"

So it doesn't matter how many lunatics are in the academy, so long as
they don't have a monopoly.

vince