OK you ask for it, you get it. This will be Academia is Stupid Part I: Research Almost all humanities & social sciences research in the Anglophone world happens at an extremely elementary level, and is to a large degree repetitive, unoriginal, or wrong.https://twitter.com/eugyppius1/status/1383860266341834757 …
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Replying to @eugyppius1 @benjamingrundy
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.
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Replying to @ThePurdude @benjamingrundy
perhaps the most ridiculous comment this thread has received.
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Replying to @eugyppius1 @benjamingrundy
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.
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Replying to @ThePurdude @benjamingrundy
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
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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.
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Replying to @eugyppius1 @benjamingrundy
145k isnt surprising. Dumb asses flock.
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here’s the second part for you to get mad about.https://twitter.com/eugyppius1/status/1384873995904901124 …
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