They have turned the university into a self-serving fallacy factory for deranged doctrine.

All through the Covid debacle, El Gato Malo has been at the forefront with science, reason, evidence, and logic.  He was right earlier, more often, and more quickly than all our multi-thousand persons, multi-billion dollar budget public health agencies.  And not based on emotion or ideological conviction but on evidence.

Some suppositions did not pan out, others did, but it was always dependent on the evidence.  

Had we listened only to EGM from February 2020 onwards, we would have had a markedly better outcome.

So he has a lot of credibility in the bank.

He has a ripper out on academia.  He and I on basically on the same song sheet for many of the same reasons so it is reassuring to his piece.  From Auditing academia by El Gato Malo.  The subheading is what have the professors been professing? the real fun is about to begin.  

Delivered with verb, wit, panache, and humor.

Some quotes:

Ackman is not nemesis but a symptom of nemesis. the time had come for this to happen. he happened to be front and center when it did.

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Small groups of hyper-politicized and fetishistically tribal hyper-partisans took over entire fields of endeavor. they took over the journals. they took over the grant giving. All of it.

This has made a lysenko level mess out of entire fields for decades. It has turned peer review into an ideological commissariat whose primary purpose has been to speak power to truth and to prevent truth from being spoken at all.

And now, suddenly, these obscure journals and dissertations, previously read only by other like minded members of "the club" who cared about nothing save ideological purity are going to be read widely.

Propensity for plagiarism will be the least of the revelations.

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It was a parlor game for tweedy irrelevancies.

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Have you seen the dissertations of university professors, presidents, and elected officials and realized what they are actually about?

Half of it is not even scholarship, it’s just diatribe.

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And when the world gets a look at what has been passing for academia, it's going to get very, very interesting for the academics because these people are so corrupt, so self-absorbed, so out of step, and so detached from reality that they have not only destroyed but actually inverted the whole system of “higher education” and turned the university into a self-serving fallacy factory for deranged doctrine.