There are no easy fixes to this state of affairs. Worse, our universities don't recognize they have a problem. Instead, professors and university administrators are inclined to indignantly dismiss concerns about the curriculum, peer review, and hiring, promotion and tenure decisions as cynically calling into question their good character. But these concerns are actually rooted in the democratic conviction that professors and university administrators are not cut from finer cloth than their fellow citizens.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Unsurprising ...
... Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen. (This is a link to the full article, via the intrepid Dave Lull.)
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What a sad excerpt. I imagine whoever wrote it has never actually done any scientific research. It is not the universities or administrators that publish peer-reviewed research, but independent journals. Never let the facts get in the way of a good rant, though. Sad, very sad.
ReplyDeleteEven sadder, though, don't you think, is what the Institute of Physics said in a memorandum
ReplyDeleteto Parliament, that "the CRU e-mails as published on the internet provide prima facie evidence of determined and co-ordinated refusals to comply with honourable scientific traditions and freedom of information law"?
Well, that link quit working. Try this one.
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