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> Not defending academia at all But you just spent 2 and a half paragraphs doing just that. Don’t try then to distance yourself from the opinion you’ve just gi
by aunty_helen 6y ago
> Not defending academia at all
But you just spent 2 and a half paragraphs doing just that. Don’t try then to distance yourself from the opinion you’ve just given.
- ramraj07 6y agoI did not defend academia, but pointed out that the author never understood it. I never said that these academic qualities (conciseness or not being naive) were actually good. The author said they are not learned in academia and I said that’s not true. Conciseness is a good thing; it’s a minimum requirement in academia while you can get by elsewhere without it. The lack of naïveté is actually not a good thing necessarily. People in academia learn to play the game and not actually do proper science. A quick perusal of my comment history would reveal I am no friend of academia, I too ran away from it with just a PhD!