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"[A]cademia is currently organized so that it invites communal reinforcement, prevents researchers from leaving fields whose promise is dwindling, and supports a rich-get-richer trend."

A really awesome quote there. (Perhaps a bit self-serving for me).




    (Perhaps a bit self-serving for me).
So you think she's biased in pointing out that academia has systemic biases?


SKDH is as much of a physics insider as they come. So, if anything, she has something to lose.


sorry, that parsed poorly.

It's a bit self serving for me. I operate a science nonprofit outside of traditional academia.


Yeah, I realized later it was possible to interpret that sentence another way. I think my downvoter thought I was making a dumb throwaway snark, but I was actually just confused.


well it's not an expected situation that anyone runs a science nonprofit, so your confusion is understandable.




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