A Kissinger quote .. Archived Message
Posted by Shyaku on August 14, 2022, 7:14 am, in reply to "A scientist in the public eye has taken her own life. This has to be a wake-up call (Devi Sridhar)"
“Academic life is so vicious because the stakes are so puny”. Vicious is what academics do to each other. Its called backstabbing. Academics like it because they get to make the rules and they were self-selected for their ability to do it effectively. Well now something bigger is happening in the real world, other people are making the rules and shining a light on scientists and academics - both fairly and unfairly - and apparently academics can’t handle it. Well tough, they are still very privileged and they will have to find ways to adapt. Or go work in the fields, Mao-style :-) Spoken from the inside. - Shyaku
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