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  • Academics Claim Their Non-PC Transgender Research is Being Censored

    Academics Claim Their Non-PC Transgender Research is Being Censored0

    Academic publishing is being viewed with increasing skepticism the last several years. This skepticism, of course, is not helped with academic papers about the whiteness of pumpkins, oppressed squirrels, and dog rape, the latter being a hoax to prove that academic publishing has indeed gone off the deep end. If such unique, rather irrelevant topics

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  • Academics are Horribly Unprofessional… Here’s Why

    Academics are Horribly Unprofessional… Here’s Why0

    In a recent article for The Chronicle of Higher Education Rob Jenkins asks, “Why Are Some Academics So Unprofessional?”. One might well ask the same about any other profession, of course; doubtless many of you could give examples. But it does seem worse in academia, and that suggests a lesson both important and easily absorbed.

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  • Academic Writing is Becoming a Caricature of Itself

    Academic Writing is Becoming a Caricature of Itself0

    Much of modern postsecondary intellectual discourse emblematizes a regressive displacement of phraseology toward loquacious amalgamations intended to subvert intelligibility. Which is academic-speak for “Most academic writing these days is crap.” We’ve written on this subject before. In no other time in history have so many professors written so much that is unintelligible to the public,

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  • Academic Research is in Danger of Becoming a Joke

    Academic Research is in Danger of Becoming a Joke0

    What do a gay man expressing his voyeuristic fantasies about intercourse with Dominican sex workers, Pumpkin Spiced Lattés demonstrating inherent White Supremacy, a doctoral thesis on ethical implications of ghosts and scary stories on the internet, and the need for a Feminist epistemology of glaciers have in common? They’re all the topics of academic papers

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  • Academic Publishing Is a Total Mess. Here Are 6 Ways to Fix It.

    Academic Publishing Is a Total Mess. Here Are 6 Ways to Fix It.1

    The world of scholarly communication is broken. Giant, corporate publishers with racketeering business practices and profit margins that exceed Apple’s treat life-saving research as a private commodity to be sold at exorbitant profits. Only around 25 per cent of the global corpus of research knowledge is ‘open access’, or accessible to the public for free

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  • Academic Nonsense and Biases Have a Long History

    Academic Nonsense and Biases Have a Long History0

    The United States had a population of 1.5 million postsecondary faculty members in the fall of 2016. This ivory tower army produces volumes of written material so lofty that it’s rarely read by anyone. The content that is read can be hard for every day Americans to take seriously, for with 10.4 registered Democrats for every registered Republican, the political bias is strong

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