{"id":200,"date":"2009-01-13T22:17:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T22:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jarrodhart.wordpress.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2009-01-13T22:17:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T22:17:06","slug":"the-trouble-with-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"The trouble with academia…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have had enough exposure to scientific academia (6 years full time, and now 6 years as an industrial PhD supervisor) to have seriously lost faith.\u00a0Some of the issues well put by Jonathan Katz, a physicist in his article\u00a0Don’t become a scientist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps ‘lost faith’ is too kind. “Fed up with”, is perhaps more precise. Perhaps I just want to whine. The complaints I would add to Dr Katz are the following opinions I have come across:<\/p>\n

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  1. The assumption that unless you are a professor at a tedious university, you have no intellect.<\/li>\n
  2. The idea that unless your ideas are published in a the ‘preferred’ peer reviewed journal, they are not worth bothering with.<\/li>\n
  3. The idea that research with some practical use is somehow inferior.<\/li>\n
  4. The idea that anyone deserves to get public money to ponder their theories without a feeling a gratitude and indeed an obligation to pay this kindness back.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Perhaps I am just envious and wish I was a don at Oxford… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have had enough exposure to scientific academia (6 years full time, and now 6 years as an industrial PhD supervisor) to have seriously lost faith.\u00a0Some of the issues well put by Jonathan Katz, a physicist in his article\u00a0Don’t become a scientist. Perhaps ‘lost faith’ is too kind. “Fed up with”, is perhaps more precise. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[86,264,267],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}