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Academia is funded to the tune of billions of dollars a year. If they don't have the funds to check their own work then it is a damning indictment of the fundin
by nvm0n2 3y ago
Academia is funded to the tune of billions of dollars a year. If they don't have the funds to check their own work then it is a damning indictment of the funding process, one that suggests governments are utterly unqualified to be funding research at all.
But in this case funding doesn't seem to be the problem. The author says why she didn't check: she wanted to be famous.
- ehhthing 3y agoDon't you think its funny that we pay academics a fraction of how much we pay tech workers and yet we expect so much more from them?
- nvm0n2 3y agoNo because "we" don't pay academics, universities do. It's their decision to hire more professors instead of paying the existing ones more, it's their decision to create siloed departments etc. The system has plenty of money, but universities and grant agencies allocate it very badly despite being mostly staffed by academics and ex academics.