It has gotten very, very bad. It's always depended a lot on interpretations. As Christians we would say that regardless of whether or not you can nail something down and prove it, you should still have logic behind your argument. This is where it gets so fuzzy today. These days we're supposed to depend on our feelings and experience.
Logic is taught to be irrelevant and sometimes even harmful.
All of this, in my opinion, goes back to the late 1960's and the avoidance of the draft. These radicals hand-pick their disciples from among the graduate students and they train them. Sometimes the young ones end up even more radical than their mentors. The person teaching the course in female sexuality, for example, is relatively young. These radicals don't have any fear of reprisal for what they espouse.