paraphrasing to emphasize irony: "Science should be based on solid data: published, auditable, peer-reviewed numbers. Data is good, data is objective, data is

paraphrasing to emphasize irony: "Science should be based on solid data: published, auditable, peer-reviewed numbers. Data is good, data is objective, data is truth. "Academic hiring is broken. We can't base academic hiring on numbers because people game the numbers. In academic hiring we need to be subjective, to evaluate the intrinsic merit of each researcher. Data is corrupt, data isn't sufficiently subjective, data is flawed.