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This sounds more like an argument to discredit all academics. Someone is funding them all...right?

• username223 11y ago
  You're too cynical. People who are skilled enough don't have to prostitute themselves as brand sponsors.
  • jsprogrammer 11y ago
    I didn't say it was my argument. >As an academic, you live or die by your funding. (Teaching doesn't matter.)
    • username223 11y ago
      I apparently misunderstood. What did you think was my argument to discredit all academics? What I wrote was that your value to the department is your funding, not your teaching. If you're good, the funding takes care of itself; if not, you whore yourself to whomever you can.
      • jsprogrammer 11y ago
        If you read: >If Google "guarantees" your funding as long as you write the things they want written, you have a significant incentive to look upon them favorably. as a type of discrediting due to the source of the "guarantee" on funding, then: >As an academic, you live or die by your funding. implies that all live academics are funded. Funding must come from somewhere with some form of guarantee. If we can generalize Google to stand in for any other source of funding, then you have constructed an argument that discredits all live academics.