Isn’t that because of the incentive system? The concept of peer review should be rebuked. What should matter is whether your theory or experimental report is correct or not. Not whether the peer group approves of it. Can we devise a better system? Some way to setup a marketplace?
Tenure has failed to protect academic freedom for two reasons. One is that it still leaves plenty of room for coercion (cancel culture, etc.). But the other, much sadder one is that most professors are just as prone to groupthink and following the herd as everyone else.
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Not just peer review, I think. Recommendation letters for promotion too. Generally, I sense that being politically savvy gets one ahead in Academia. Unfortunately, this is not always aligned with truth seeking.
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To paraphrase Feynman, when it comes to non-scientific problems, a scientist/professor is just as prone to groupthink as the next guy.
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Scientific ones as well.
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Who could've guessed that knowledge does not mean wisdom?
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And only the top 1% are researching really important problems, the rest, not so much. Pursuit of professorship should be discouraged for most people but tenure encourages it.
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Sadder still is the public belief that tenured professors' salaries are behind the skyrocketing tuition of the past four decades.
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In reality, our salaries are a negligible part of this increase, which is due in large part to the increase in the numbers administrators and the size of their salaries.
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Tenure has failed because before getting tenured you need to pass thro a number of vetting processes where you are selected more by ideology than academic merits, which result in tenured professors being more and more a self-selecting caste.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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