2 ms·

Life is an 'anxiety machine.' Claiming academia killed this specific man is in extremely bad taste. And if we're speaking in generalities, I'd need to see evid

• aaronem 12y ago
  Come now! Surely you can defend your sacred cow more vigorously than that. You're not starting to entertain second thoughts of your own, are you?
• michaelochurch 12y ago
  If you or I get fired from a software job, it's 2-3 months to find another one. A fired academic is toast. We have more month-by-month job loss risks but they have long-term career risks. One hit on your reputation and you're done as a professor. So, they face a different set of problems. Academia didn't kill him singularly but I'm sure that it was a contributing factor. Was it murder? No. Wrongful death? Yes.