[EDIT: Sorry if the tone of this in harsh. I see in your original comment that you do say that people should take this seriously, and though there's a lot of no

[EDIT: Sorry if the tone of this in harsh. I see in your original comment that you do say that people should take this seriously, and though there's a lot of noise, there's also signal when it comes to this stuff.] > I dont know and it's not right for anyone to judge otherwise unless you're actually apart of the process that does any good. Respectfully, I disagree. IMHO the whole point of a democracy and an open society is for citizens to make judgements of processes which they’re not a part of. Hopefully those judgements are informed and humble, but our job - our duty - as citizens in a democracy is to judge nonetheless. > It's a whole different story to pony up the cash and time to do something about it. It sounds like the prof in question has been trying to get people to do that. I’d assume the newspaper published the story in the hope it would raise awareness. What else other than publish a story is a newspaper going to do?