Academia should be an asylum, a free-for-all/high-risk/high-reward incubator for weirdoes. You tolerate a lot of bad ideas for the sake of a few good ones -- so yes tenure, yes academic freedom, yes protect and subsidize absolute howling bullshit.
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Most STEM departments at research universities are dominated by factory-style labs, where one lead investigator battery-farms graduate students who churn out garbage papers based on the boss's particular grift; the boss gets his name on every publication for free.
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what would be best way to fix it all
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.