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Possibly making matters worse, this is from Stanford where they had the university president caught engaging in fraud on Alzheimer’s research.
by oivey 15d ago
Possibly making matters worse, this is from Stanford where they had the university president caught engaging in fraud on Alzheimer’s research.
- bell-cot 15d agoPossibly, but I wouldn't assume any connection. In sociological terms, modern universities are mid-last-millennium noble houses*, locked in an endless competition for power, wealth, prestige, and influence. Adding a few stanzas of hyperbole when bragging about one of their knights vanquishing some infidel of ignorance? That's simply how things are done. *Yes, there's never really a king or duke or whatever. But consider the history of the word regent.