Why Academics Leftists and Elitists Need to Treat Ordinary Americans With Respect
- Thread starter nsacpi
- Start date
Tapate50
Well-known member
Our educational institutions are a cult and only inclusive to their own!
Tapate50
Well-known member
Those that can’t do- teach
acesfull86
Well-known member
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/12/mit-trump-education-universities/
Finally, it is almost sublimely hilarious that Trump’s compact forbids universities to “belittle” — wait for it — “conservative ideas.” Such as? Civility? Free trade? Fiscal continence? The separation of powers? The rule of law? Keeping the public and private sectors distinct by not conscripting corporations (Intel, U.S. Steel and others) into the public sector? Government too modest to decree that universities must be “safe spaces” for conservatives (who used to be proud of not being snowflakes)?
The Trump administration is today’s comprehensive belittler of conservative ideas.
Finally, it is almost sublimely hilarious that Trump’s compact forbids universities to “belittle” — wait for it — “conservative ideas.” Such as? Civility? Free trade? Fiscal continence? The separation of powers? The rule of law? Keeping the public and private sectors distinct by not conscripting corporations (Intel, U.S. Steel and others) into the public sector? Government too modest to decree that universities must be “safe spaces” for conservatives (who used to be proud of not being snowflakes)?
The Trump administration is today’s comprehensive belittler of conservative ideas.
acesfull86
Well-known member
https://jamesgmartin.center/2025/12/a-much-needed-expose-of-academic-fraud/
The proliferation of fraud and deception in research causes Bazerman distress. He writes, “When researchers make up their data, they may publish more easily and gain an unfair advantage as they seek job opportunities and move up the academic ladder.” Undoubtedly that’s true, but Bazerman misses the root of the problem, which is that we have far too many wanna-be professors desperately trying to climb academic ladders in the first place. Because we vastly subsidize higher education generally and academic research, we create the conditions making it inevitable that we will get reams and reams of useless research, some of it fraudulent and much more of it pointless.
Prior to the higher-education explosion beginning with the 1965 Higher Education Act, academic research was a small-scale affair. The country had far fewer “research” institutions where the main occupation of faculty members was doing research, and there were far fewer academic departments where up-and-coming professors were obligated to crank out publications if they wanted to get hired and then make tenure. Academic research was done by dedicated scholars pursuing serious lines of inquiry, and submissions were carefully scrutinized.
But with the big higher-education push starting in 1965, “publish or perish” became a mass phenomenon, and the huge numbers of aspiring academics overwhelmed the system. Hundreds of new journals sprang up, frequently with very lax standards for screening out dubious work. That laxity was hilariously exposed by Alan Sokal in an article stating that gravity is merely a social construct, written in fashionable academic gibberish that fooled the editors into taking it seriously.
Moreover, colleges and universities created many new academic “disciplines” where rigor took a backseat to publishing ideologically correct papers on topics like “implicit bias.” Our institutions were employing an army of professors whose main job was not to teach a body of knowledge but, rather, to produce research in avant-garde fields such as Women’s Studies. The result was an outpouring of extremely dubious scholarship—a prodigious waste of resources.
The proliferation of fraud and deception in research causes Bazerman distress. He writes, “When researchers make up their data, they may publish more easily and gain an unfair advantage as they seek job opportunities and move up the academic ladder.” Undoubtedly that’s true, but Bazerman misses the root of the problem, which is that we have far too many wanna-be professors desperately trying to climb academic ladders in the first place. Because we vastly subsidize higher education generally and academic research, we create the conditions making it inevitable that we will get reams and reams of useless research, some of it fraudulent and much more of it pointless.
Prior to the higher-education explosion beginning with the 1965 Higher Education Act, academic research was a small-scale affair. The country had far fewer “research” institutions where the main occupation of faculty members was doing research, and there were far fewer academic departments where up-and-coming professors were obligated to crank out publications if they wanted to get hired and then make tenure. Academic research was done by dedicated scholars pursuing serious lines of inquiry, and submissions were carefully scrutinized.
But with the big higher-education push starting in 1965, “publish or perish” became a mass phenomenon, and the huge numbers of aspiring academics overwhelmed the system. Hundreds of new journals sprang up, frequently with very lax standards for screening out dubious work. That laxity was hilariously exposed by Alan Sokal in an article stating that gravity is merely a social construct, written in fashionable academic gibberish that fooled the editors into taking it seriously.
Moreover, colleges and universities created many new academic “disciplines” where rigor took a backseat to publishing ideologically correct papers on topics like “implicit bias.” Our institutions were employing an army of professors whose main job was not to teach a body of knowledge but, rather, to produce research in avant-garde fields such as Women’s Studies. The result was an outpouring of extremely dubious scholarship—a prodigious waste of resources.
Coordinated plot to take down the West.