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Academic Research Is in Danger of Becoming a Joke
- dalke 10y agoI swear, it's like people pass around the same handful of examples when they want to complain about irrelevant academic research. What they never do is justify the "becoming" part. For over a century, people have complained about university research as 'useless ivory tower activities' (quoting https://books.google.com/books?id=p6T3eo5ltFAC&pg=RA15-PA53&dq=ivory+tower+useless&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=ivory%20tower%20useless&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=p6T3eo5ltFAC&pg=RA15-PA53&... as a 1983 reference I picked arbitrarily from a Google Books search). Go back to the 1950s and I'm sure you'll see similar complaints about the uselessness of academic humanities research.