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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 17

    Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Zaelkrie  🇿🇦

    No matter what you think about how and if universities should be publicly funded, we do not want the government deciding what can and cannot be studied or how knowledge is obtained. We need universities to do that. That some fields are already doing so politically is the problem.https://twitter.com/thegothking/status/1052555809056595969 …

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    Zaelkrie  🇿🇦 @thegothking
    But don't governments contribute tax money to universities? Tax payer money s shouldn't be wasted on bunk courses like gender studies that don't contribute anything, it should be privately funded. The only courses that should be given tax money are essential courses like STEM. https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/1052520013960220672 …
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      1. Allen Scantland‏ @AllenS67 Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Blank cheques for largess of administration or frivolous social enquiry pandered as science? Private donors can do as they like but gvt funds need to be accountable to the public. The admins & boards are failing in their fiduciary duties by allowing this free for all.

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      1. Zaelkrie  🇿🇦‏ @thegothking Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        These courses become more and more bloated and waste more and more money and don't contribute anything to society and just put students in debt. You can't expect people to give you money and have no say in how it's allocated that's just selfishness.

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      1. PragmaticLibertarian‏ @parallel235 Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Obviously it isn’t the ideal, but given the proliferation of non scientific grievance studies and their pernicious effect on society, do you have a better alternative?

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      2. cochrane101‏ @cochrane101 Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I absolutely agree, Helen But how can we trust universities to make such decisions when they allowed the grievance studies charlatans through the gate in the first place?

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      1. scruffy‏ @jscarfutti Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose @ConceptualJames

        Not to get too @nntaleb on you, but don't you think the systemic lack of focus on "real" problems is correlated to the lack of skin in the game held by most professors? In short, why wouldn't we expect this as the endgame given the self-perpetuating nature of university.

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      2. Brian Edward‏ @A_Sane_Skeptic Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose @ConceptualJames

        Agreed. If the universities fail to heed the call for self correction , this is unfortunately what we will get from exasperated red state legislatures.

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      3. James Lindsay‏ @ConceptualJames Oct 17
        Replying to @A_Sane_Skeptic @HPluckrose

        Who will do it poorly and with a hatchet rather than a scalpel.

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      1. Niklas Jonsson‏ @NiklasJonsson91 Oct 18
        Replying to @HPluckrose @ConceptualJames

        And what happens when the faculty becomes so infected that they will not see the problem in front of their face?

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      1. Tomasz Gil‏ @venedio Oct 17
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        Government money will corrupt generation and transmission of knowledge and entangle it in politics. Government should get out of higher education, ideally out of all education.

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      1. Drew Black‏ @thedrewblack73 Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        I don’t know how it works in the UK but a lot of students here in Australia get into a lot of debt to study garbage. Not sure what I think about govt intervention but the system is broken.

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      1. Kosie van der Merwe‏ @KosievanderMerw Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose @RomanCabanac

        I disagree, we do not have the luxury and an abundance of resources, to be frank that is a ridicilous assertion under the circumstances. Nice to have, do it yourself, own choice. Essential skills required by co SA, different story. Simple, see!

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      1. Richard Dickerson‏ @SlothSamurai Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        And since Universities haven't been willing to do that, I think there is room for the government to force the issue. We shouldn't be paying millions in tax dollars to make our society more unhealthy.

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      1. Super Lazy‏ @SuperLazy6 Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose @RomanCabanac

        No, universities reps were not voted in by public, let those who voted them in pay.

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      1. NewYorkEgg‏ @EggAccount1648 Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Universities are, should be, and must be very free to study whatever they want, if & when they are using their own funds to do so. American universities, in particular, have plenty of their own funds for such things.

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      1. NewYorkEgg‏ @EggAccount1648 Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Hmm... can’t agree with this. Universities are/must be accountable for what they teach, indeed. But governments are equally accountable for what they find. A government can never provide no strings attached funding - recipient must prove it is being responsibly used.

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      1. Gary J-G‏ @Gary_J_G Oct 17
        Replying to @HPluckrose

        Ooh, torn on that one tbh. I reckon I'd draw the line at something like 'Business Management of Emotional Support Squirrels' tbh.

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