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This was the best thing I was sent on the topic, and it's really great: corruption-of-science.blogspot.com

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Jan 15, 2022

What's the best thing to read about what's gone so wrong with academia in the US? (Sample bias for sure, but it's remarkable how negative the people who leave academia are about its future, which seems like a real problem.)

12:16 AM · Jan 17, 2022

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If the book is like the first paragraph, it isn’t remotely like what I see in academia. Of course there are some mediocre and even unethical people doing research, just as in business, investing, government, religion etc But most academics I know are trying to uncover the truth

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While both have some serious problems, on net high tech and leading research universities are some of America’s biggest successes

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Funny after I saw tweet I listened to this interview. Quite interesting first part

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Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth | Lex Fridman...

Niall Ferguson is a historian at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of 16 books on the history of money, war, power, and catastrophe. ...

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check this shit out dude

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this is the kind of tweet that makes me bullish about the future of science funding!

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Thanks for sharing. Look forward to reading.

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So no one sent you any manifesto's then eh?

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The broader point resonates, but for a love letter to real science, it really lacks the rigor it preaches. Seems like the author has a cursory knowledge of history & there's a lot of anecdotal confirmation bias. Reads more like a rant than analysis but maybe that's the point.

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Jumping on this topic, this paper highlighted well how it's short-term and counterproductive for academia to pervade in dubious practices. "Destructive tendencies of academic dynasties are associated with nepotism and clannishness."

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(PDF) Digitalization and Sustainable Higher Education: Constructive and Destructive Potential of...

PDF | The paper focuses on digitalisation and sustainable higher education using the analysis of the institutions of professional academic dynasties and... | Find, read and cite all the research you...