I went to grad school for linguistics, a field that nobody cares about and that nobody funds. The sheer amount of ass kissing and parroting back of the established “facts” was astounding. And this is in a completely politically irrelevant field. I can’t imagine the peer pressure in a highly political and well-funded subject like “climate…
I went to grad school for linguistics, a field that nobody cares about and that nobody funds. The sheer amount of ass kissing and parroting back of the established “facts” was astounding. And this is in a completely politically irrelevant field. I can’t imagine the peer pressure in a highly political and well-funded subject like “climate science”. If it comes out of an established academic program, we probably shouldn’t believe it. There is very little incentive to deviate from the norm.
I went to grad school for linguistics, a field that nobody cares about and that nobody funds. The sheer amount of ass kissing and parroting back of the established “facts” was astounding. And this is in a completely politically irrelevant field. I can’t imagine the peer pressure in a highly political and well-funded subject like “climate science”. If it comes out of an established academic program, we probably shouldn’t believe it. There is very little incentive to deviate from the norm.