Quote: (08-25-2018 11:37 AM)Simeon_Strangelight Wrote:
Quote: (08-25-2018 11:22 AM)Celestial Wrote:
Why is there always this implicit assumption that <insert Harvard/MIT/Stanford> professors / researchers are so talented and smart that there recommendations/conclusions should be taken over years of empirical evidence of the opposite.
Coconut oil works for tons of people and has myriads of applications. This professor thinks the opposite, it's bullshit.
I treat more and more of these modern movements against things that have worked for years with skepticism.
It used to be the case they attracted the best people - but that was before the push for female and various diversity, before the push for ever greater nepotism in elite colleges - and before the hard-left agenda-driven corporate-bought destruction of knowledge. Big corporations are giving colleges like Harvard sometimes 10-30 mio. $ in donations. If I was as generous as that, then they would be writing some good opinion pieces on me. Plus the universities now fire even Nobel price winners if they oppose the status quo like some who said that women have less interest in STEM subjects due to biological determinants or are less talented in other fields.
It was actually a lot worse than that. He got canned for suggesting someone might do a study to find out if that was a reason they were lagging in STEM. He got canned for even suggesting a university use science and research to even question the established orthodoxy. A sad day in the history of academia.,