Mathematician here. The problem is that by its very structure Academia breeds cowardice. If a subject matter had any political import whatsoever, anybody who disagrees with the agenda is driven out before they can get tenure. And even if you get tenure after 4 years of undergraduate, 5 to 7 years of grad school, a 3 year postdoc (or two), and a six year period as an assistant professor ( requiring letters of recommendation and diversity letters at every stage of the game), they can still fire your ass if you go against the narrative in anyway on race and gender issues. because now if you disagree with affirmative action you are a danger to your students, you are terrorizing them.
also looking at the way these idiots in the soft Sciences manipulate statistics I can confidently say that any academic consensus on a subject that has any political import whatsoever is useless. Conservatives are absolutely right to doubt anything that comes out of the University. It's all bulshit the damn place you should be defunded outside of the hard Sciences.
Its not like science can easily be bought out by megadonor special interests in order to sway public opinion to their side. Now excuse me while I go light up my Lucky Strike, the ONLY brand that 9 out of 10 doctors recommend their patients smoke!
Well, they have to find a way to placate the rioters as well as find a way to blame everything on Trump and republicans. So when reality conflicts with the narrative, you get a ridiculous scenario that the virus somehow can sense whether you're protesting the lockdown or for BLM, and whether it spreads or not depends on your political views.
Yeah, I'm still honestly curious how the "best" strategy for them wasn't honesty like:
Please bear with us, China bought out many of our masks in January and early February and on top of that your local and Federal government is under prepared for this event. At this time we please request that you refrain from buying PPE that our medical require, but invite you to make your own handmade masks as a substitute until supplies increase. Please continue to use all sanitary, social distancing and relevant measures as recommended by the CCD.
They've basically lost a LOT of trust by everyone who pays attention and can remember what happened more than a few months ago.
They have been saying that people rioting has REDUCED Covid transmission.
So where we're at now....
Protesting to be able to work = bad, evil, kills grandma
Rioting and burning down buildings = good, virtuous, makes grandma safer
Now if this were reddit, this message would get censored
Mathematician here. The problem is that by its very structure Academia breeds cowardice. If a subject matter had any political import whatsoever, anybody who disagrees with the agenda is driven out before they can get tenure. And even if you get tenure after 4 years of undergraduate, 5 to 7 years of grad school, a 3 year postdoc (or two), and a six year period as an assistant professor ( requiring letters of recommendation and diversity letters at every stage of the game), they can still fire your ass if you go against the narrative in anyway on race and gender issues. because now if you disagree with affirmative action you are a danger to your students, you are terrorizing them.
also looking at the way these idiots in the soft Sciences manipulate statistics I can confidently say that any academic consensus on a subject that has any political import whatsoever is useless. Conservatives are absolutely right to doubt anything that comes out of the University. It's all bulshit the damn place you should be defunded outside of the hard Sciences.
Academic reform is as important as media reform.
Its not like science can easily be bought out by megadonor special interests in order to sway public opinion to their side. Now excuse me while I go light up my Lucky Strike, the ONLY brand that 9 out of 10 doctors recommend their patients smoke!
Well, they have to find a way to placate the rioters as well as find a way to blame everything on Trump and republicans. So when reality conflicts with the narrative, you get a ridiculous scenario that the virus somehow can sense whether you're protesting the lockdown or for BLM, and whether it spreads or not depends on your political views.
Yeah, I'm still honestly curious how the "best" strategy for them wasn't honesty like:
They've basically lost a LOT of trust by everyone who pays attention and can remember what happened more than a few months ago.