> I really don't trust academia to do this with all of its misplaced incentives.

We've really learned to repeat the anti-'academia' meme. There is no "academia"; Mozilla is an organization; "academia" is millions of people around the world in every place and environment imaginable. It's absurd to assume all these people are the same or coordinated somehow.

Given the absurdity, one might ask: Who would be interested in discrediting everything produced by every college and university?