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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 actu
by 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 agoI 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, :^).