I feel like most of the system we call "academia" isn't built to advance science, but to sustain the ego of its members.
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(so is twitter btw)
You mean that Twitter pretends to have a monopoly on science? Or that a few popular tweeters decide who gets to become a Twitter member?
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I mean that many researchers uses twitter as a forum to display their opinions, sometimes akin to pontifications, sustaining thus their egos
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btw, I think you're wrong: the purpose of academia, like all self-organizing systems, is to perpetuate itself.
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