>it seems odd to me that academic prestige isn't controlled by the universities. you'd think that that's something they can create on their own. The older I ge

>it seems odd to me that academic prestige isn't controlled by the universities. you'd think that that's something they can create on their own. The older I get, the less I respect published papers, and academia. Politics over proof, it keeps showing its ugly face in results, in the process of picking a topic to study, and who gets the research money.