The suggestion was not that academics should not write this kind of code. The suggestions was "suggest that all academic epidemiology be defunded" Not do not

The suggestion was not that academics should not write this kind of code. The suggestions was "suggest that all academic epidemiology be defunded" Not do not write bad code but all epidemiology be defunded. So who will do epidimioly studies and develop models of deadly diseases? The software engineers? ;-)