eugyppius

His arguments would have more impact if he refrained from throwing out caustic terminology. Now people will throw out the baby with the insecure bath water.

perhaps the most ridiculous comment this thread has received.

Spoken like a true egotist.

so you have nothing.

Okay, how about this "smart guy". I agree with your sentiment. I also have a master's degree in marketing and understand, as you fail to, that when you start throwing out caustic terminology and "clever" respellings to dodge Twitter, nobody will give a shit about your argument.

the top tweet has 145k impressions, so somebody gives a shit you think elite academia isn’t aware of these problems? they just need somebody to gently indicate their insufficiencies & they’ll fix it? they are an insular elite with massive cultural power & absolute job security

that great swathes of them have done away with their fields and do pseudo-scholarship, and travel for fun to fake conferences on their massive research budgets: this is a feature, not a bug for them.

there are no allies to be had in these institutions, and anybody trying to reform them will be immediately excluded, even more efficiently than they have already excluded many scholars with original ideas and rigorous research programmes, because they found them threatening.