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In my social scene are people who worked at Fermilab, whose work helped inform where LHC should focus its search for the Higgs. A PhD EE who has designed chips you use. The list is long.

A lot of my insight into academia (since it’s been almost 30 years since I graduated and left it behind me) is influenced by academics tired of and often disgusted by their peers dishonesty about their work. Theory after theory have more in common with religion; they were made up.

Historians in my social scene say there’s solid historical evidence advanced degrees were invented as a payola scheme between landed gentry and the church; money for BS theology degree the illiterate public could not falsify. Over specialization doesn’t really make net new discovery so much as normalize old ones, but we keep up the role-play of history and anoint geniuses and the like.

Give them resources and prestige to do some math. Grigori Perelman would like a word on what’s required resource wise to do math. Out of touch and arrogant westerners.

Similar trend going on these days where the innumerate serve BS they cannot begin to try to falsify. Just so happens much of it isn’t reproducible anyway, but the can’t argue that or the out of touch egos of a minority of the populace that make up academia would crumple in outrage.

Offense at minor slight is so endemic to human nature, so general an emotion it impacts all of us.

Out of touch and arrogant is applies just a neatly to academics being normal humans and all.