Literally wtf is the point of academics if not this? The fact that they’re now writing op-ed’s to each other about it is pathetic, not revolutionary. https://t.co/wTnvWUV8b6
I think there’s plenty to be incorporated into public discourse other than policy. I actually don’t think most members of the public care much at all about intricate policy details.
And I assumed Matthew Sears wasn’t writing to theoretical physicists.
If you’d like me to revise my original tweet to something more like, “wtf is the point of academic social scientists if not this?”, consider it revised.