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Grad school is worse for public health than STDs
- pdfernhout 7y agoAlso on this theme of the need for graduate school reform: Jeff Schmidt on the frustration of being ideologically disciplined in grad school to not make waves -- and ways to resist: http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/ http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/ David Goodstein on how the PhD system has been a collapsing pyramid scheme since the 1970s (and is taking down peer review with it): http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html Philip Greenspun on sample bias in thinking academia is a good deal: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science An example of rampant academic financial exploitation in the humanities PhD system: https://www.villagevoice.com/2004/04/20/wanted-really-smart-suckers/ https://www.villagevoice.com/2004/04/20/wanted-really-smart-... Noam Chomsky on universities as complicit with power and filtering out those who are non-conforming: https://chomsky.info/199710__/ https://chomsky.info/199710__/ The Kept University on how corporate money and a quest for proprietary patents and copyrights is distorting academic research: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/03/the-kept-university/306629/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/03/the-kep... Freeman Dyson on the need for (likely suffering) heretics with or without PhDs: http://www.exit109.com/~gosta/heretics.sht http://www.exit109.com/~gosta/heretics.sht Richard Nelson Bolles on rethinking the mix of work, education, and leisure in your life: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21098.The_Three_Boxes_of_Life_and_How_to_Get_Out_of_Them https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21098.The_Three_Boxes_of...