How corrupt is academia?
How corrupt is academia?
Brody Evans
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Grayson Allen
Probably one of the least corrupted professions
Dylan White
A lot of Ivy leagues supposedly have a big problem with grade inflation. They keep accepting donations from rich foreigners so their dumbass kids can go there and fuck around for four years, so the faculty inflate the grades cause "muh a harvard man never gets a C"
Gabriel Gonzalez
Pretty damn bad.
Lucas Ortiz
i did engineering for an academic group for many years and the most corrupt thing i encountered was using grant money left over from one project to kick start development on the next project.
Technically you're not suppose to do this but it is fucking nothing compared to the shitshow in the private sector
Hunter Hill
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Levi Rodriguez
i'm certain most professors would commit murder if it meant getting funding. i felt for the meme on academia being a meritocracy but in reality it's just researchers whoring themselves out and pulling any strings they can to get money. dishonestly is obviously a big part of it.
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Jayden Rogers
not really from what ive seen, at least in math. no one can pay mathematicians to do fake number theory research or something. im getting sick of it though and im considering quitting my phd program so i dont have to slut it up for a postdoc and a shitty job out in nowhereville to whore myself out for grants and have mentally retarded students who hate me. i might go into finance instead.
Wyatt Morales
Depends on the department. I think the more "applied" departments tend to be cutthroat, but the more "pure" departments (Math, English, and Philosophy) tend to have more politics and petty squablings.
Noah Gray
Kind of, and in a number of ways. Even disregarding the *huge* problem of blatantly false results being published as a result of negligence, malevolence or pursuit of profit (which seems to be big in "sensitive" areas such as biology, medicine, chemistry, psychology, etc.), there's also the obvious problem of academia being a pyramid scheme, with universities producing several times more PhDs per specialty each year than there are positions open.
The situation of professorships being what it is, there is a huge risk involved in pursuing graduate studies with the hope of getting an academic position, and some pretty shady maneuvers in the recruitment of professors: Even assuming that there is a relatively objective way to assess the level of a candidate and dismissing the occasional occurrence of actual geniuses on which everyone can agree, you can usually find several people among 50 or 100 postdocs applying for the same position that display a similar level of ability. On what basis is the choice made then ?