Am I the only one who reads this and thinks these people are not focused on anything more than writing a lot of big words in a journal to suck up grant money an

Am I the only one who reads this and thinks these people are not focused on anything more than writing a lot of big words in a journal to suck up grant money and further their career. Like the goal clearly isn't to accumulate and communicate knowledge in a way that benefits humanity. Because you could have more clearly communicated this in 1/10th of the words. This is everything wrong with academia. The world would be better off if most of these departments were put out of their misery and we redirected the funds. > Being phylogenetically close involves greater empathic perceptions towards other species. To explore this phenomenon, this study investigates the influence of neurocognitive predispositions to empathy on our perceptions of other organisms. Autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized, among others, by weakened empathic skills. Our online survey involved a group of 202 raters with ASD and a control group of 1100 raters, who had to make choices to assess their empathic perceptions toward an extended photographic sampling of organisms. Results highlight that both groups present overall similar trends in their empathic preferences, with empathy scores significantly decreasing with the phylogenetic distance relatively to humans