Watching a friend go through the process of attaining tenured position in Economics recently has taught me to never listen to Economists. They are all focused o

Watching a friend go through the process of attaining tenured position in Economics recently has taught me to never listen to Economists. They are all focused on impressing each other MUCH more than progressing Economics. And that's not even considering the Ergodicity crisis there. Once you see the sausage being made, you realize "peer review" is a way to project power in academia, it is not about science. Eric Weinstein has been talking about this lately, something he calls DISC "The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex". Some of his first hand stories are shocking, but are exactly the kind of thing those I know in academia tell me they face every day.