Some 120 papers published in established scientific journals over the last few years have been found to be frauds, created by nothing more than an automated word generator that puts random, fancy-sounding words together in plausible sentence structures. As a result they have been pulled from the journals that originally published them.
The_Boourns_Identity posted:Some 120 papers published in established scientific journals over the last few years have been found to be frauds, created by nothing more than an automated word generator that puts random, fancy-sounding words together in plausible sentence structures. As a result they have been pulled from the journals that originally published them.
what a shame.
getfiscal posted:i think it's estimated that 40% of papers about new drugs are written wholly by pharmaceutical companies that then assign paid-off doctors as authors. i sort of assume that whole swaths of academia are just frauds and hucksters.
this, but unironically, but in a hip self-aware way
Lykourgos posted:Liberal arts academia is the worst of the bunch, burn down all the liberal arts buildings, death to law school and poli sci degrees
are you joking or have you genuinely come to hate everything you stand for
ive never had a kind word to say about lib arts academia
Lykourgos posted:are you joking or have you never read a single one of my posts
ive never had a kind word to say about lib arts academia
you mean your hundreds of posts in the "lawyer and law school megathread" on somethingawful, your 10,000 posts on the supremacy of the classics here, there, and everywhere, or your constant, sneering denunciations of the "unlearned?"
VoxNihili posted:liberal arts are heavily anchored in the classics, though. "teaching the classics" is just liberal arts by another name- how do you not see this?
they're not though, "teaching the classics" isn't liberal arts by another name- how do you not see this?
you clearly haven't read my posts
answer enough to sustain a multibillion dollar industry surviving on government subsidies and the issuance of debt to 18 year olds with no skills or prospects
MindMaster posted:becoming a university studentw as the dumbest thing i ever did & pretty much ruined my life
same. but still can't wait to do some graduate degrees now.
tpaine posted:littlegreenpills posted:i wanted a job too, i cried out every day "Lord please send me some work!!!!" then he did and i almost immediately longed to be unemployed again
people i work under can't do extremely basic math and send out emails riddled with the kind of grammar mistakes you'd expect from a 12 year old on aol
thankfully we live in a meritocracy, so in a few short decades you may have the chance to do the work of their collective positions, for a fraction of their benefits
VoxNihili posted:liberal arts are heavily anchored in the classics, though. "teaching the classics" is just liberal arts by another name- how do you not see this?
realize who you're responding to and understand this is what it feels like to be owned