This was written by young undergrads with no actual research experience and a random visiting lecturer who is obviously trying to career climb (and had it backf

This was written by young undergrads with no actual research experience and a random visiting lecturer who is obviously trying to career climb (and had it backfire). Certainly there is bad research produced by MIT but I'd hardly call this "produced by MIT" in the traditional academic sense. It is extremely easy actually to get yourself some sort of affiliation. Perhaps they should crack down on that, but I think the relative openness of MIT is overall a good university culture to have, and only a small minority of those with tenuous affiliation are actually grifters.