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Actually it’s possible for people to have opinions on matters where they are not a published author or academic. Also “little mice noisily speculating about th
by whyleyc 6y ago
Actually it’s possible for people to have opinions on matters where they are not a published author or academic.
Also “little mice noisily speculating about the state of the world” is a pretty good summary of a lot of academia.
- pii 6y agoYeah we should burn the universities down
- linuxhiker 6y agoNo but they could certainly use a little bit less "theory" and a little bit more "real world".
- pii 6y agoTell that to the people who invented laser or who developed the theory of evolution or who refined economics with behavior or who put experimental evidence in front of theory in psychology or who insist on using data to uphold sociological theories. I have no idea what you could possibly mean by this. Do you want trade schools? Those exist.
- pii 6y ago"Too much theory" was the exact reason we studied RNA vaccines and have a fast, working covid vaccine. I suppose math departments, being 100% theory, ought to go too
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