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The issue with academia is much broader and larger than people know of, but I'm happy that (slowly) some of these things are starting to come out to light. Bro

The issue with academia is much broader and larger than people know of, but I'm happy that (slowly) some of these things are starting to come out to light. Broader, because fraudulent research is only one of the multiple crappy things that a person with no ethics will do to grab a place and keep it. But another common thing is academic abuse towards students, which is another HUGE problem that needs to be addressed. There's a lot of real crimes happening here, extortion, sexual abuse, you name it. Guess who's talking about it? Almost nobody. Larger, because people tend to believe that these are just a few bad apples while in reality this is pretty much how many large academic institutions operate de facto. If I'd put an estimate of how many of these "bad apples" are actually there, I would say it is as high as 7 out of 10 people involved in academia. I love science, I've been doing it for about 15 years. That is the reason why I'm very vocal around this subject. This is a swamp that needs to be drained.

voakbasda 3y ago
It goes even deeper than all that. Schools basically give away undergraduate degrees now, as those who should fail will magically receive passing grades. They cannot afford to fail too many students (relative to other institutions), as that ultimately would damage either their finances or reputation. Absolutely everyone involved in teaching (professors, instructors, grad students) are complicit in this scam. This endemic condition demonstrates the complete lack of integrity present in these institutions. If they are willing to lie and cheat the system that grants the very entry level credentials required to get into the upper echelons of academia, it becomes a very safe bet that they are lying and cheating in countless other ways from the comfort of their ivory towers.
- mathisfun123 3y ago
  >It goes even deeper than all that. Schools basically give away undergraduate degrees now, as those who should fail will magically receive passing grades. how exactly did you make the leap to undergrads?
squarepizza 3y ago
> There's a lot of real crimes happening here, extortion, sexual abuse, you name it. Guess who's talking about it? Almost nobody. And institutions are very good and very fast at sweeping these under the rug, often if not always at the expense of the students.
P_I_Staker 3y ago
I hope you get a chance to respond, just want to clarify the point: "7 out of 10 people in academia are either engaging in highly unethical, borderline and actual criminal acts, or complicit in enabling and/or hiding these acts" Quite a claim if that's what you meant. Is this team members that are considered untouchable, due to being brilliant jerks/creeps, too important/connected, or otherwise inconvenient to go after? The most I've personally heard of is lecturing professors berating the demo team (and students)... he was brilliant lecturer. Perhaps others hide it better. I've heard it can work the opposite way, but I imagine it's not evenly applied. People get randomly fired from academia for the smallest of things.
- moralestapia 3y ago
  I think the reason for this is that this behavior is self-perpetuating, in the sense that "a gang of crooks" is much more likely to assemble than "a gang of good people". Whenever "a gang of crooks" takes hold of a Uni, it is extremely difficult to take them out, and people who don't want to comply with their modus operandi get pushed away and removed. The only time "a gang of crooks" is dethroned is when someone (usually, worse) seizes their power to instill their own. >People get randomly fired from academia for the smallest of things. Only those on the outgroup, :^).

voakbasda 3y ago

It goes even deeper than all that. Schools basically give away undergraduate degrees now, as those who should fail will magically receive passing grades. They cannot afford to fail too many students (relative to other institutions), as that ultimately would damage either their finances or reputation. Absolutely everyone involved in teaching (professors, instructors, grad students) are complicit in this scam. This endemic condition demonstrates the complete lack of integrity present in these institutions. If they are willing to lie and cheat the system that grants the very entry level credentials required to get into the upper echelons of academia, it becomes a very safe bet that they are lying and cheating in countless other ways from the comfort of their ivory towers.

mathisfun123 3y ago
>It goes even deeper than all that. Schools basically give away undergraduate degrees now, as those who should fail will magically receive passing grades. how exactly did you make the leap to undergrads?

squarepizza 3y ago

> There's a lot of real crimes happening here, extortion, sexual abuse, you name it. Guess who's talking about it? Almost nobody. And institutions are very good and very fast at sweeping these under the rug, often if not always at the expense of the students.

P_I_Staker 3y ago

I hope you get a chance to respond, just want to clarify the point: "7 out of 10 people in academia are either engaging in highly unethical, borderline and actual criminal acts, or complicit in enabling and/or hiding these acts" Quite a claim if that's what you meant. Is this team members that are considered untouchable, due to being brilliant jerks/creeps, too important/connected, or otherwise inconvenient to go after? The most I've personally heard of is lecturing professors berating the demo team (and students)... he was brilliant lecturer. Perhaps others hide it better. I've heard it can work the opposite way, but I imagine it's not evenly applied. People get randomly fired from academia for the smallest of things.

moralestapia 3y ago
I think the reason for this is that this behavior is self-perpetuating, in the sense that "a gang of crooks" is much more likely to assemble than "a gang of good people". Whenever "a gang of crooks" takes hold of a Uni, it is extremely difficult to take them out, and people who don't want to comply with their modus operandi get pushed away and removed. The only time "a gang of crooks" is dethroned is when someone (usually, worse) seizes their power to instill their own. >People get randomly fired from academia for the smallest of things. Only those on the outgroup, :^).