>This is just a list of the usual gripes about academia. It applies to almost every subject. Including Biology, which I work in. No, it's far worse. For one th

>This is just a list of the usual gripes about academia. It applies to almost every subject. Including Biology, which I work in. No, it's far worse. For one thing, the people who do actually get professorships do very valuable research,at least a large proportion of them, whereas the philosophy professors are mostly doing junk. For another, there are lots of biology jobs in industry and government, but basically none outside academia.