Alan:
"...intensified demands on faculty to plow out completely mainstream, totally pedestrian and intellectually uninteresting research in the humanities, social sciences..."
Doug:
"Ok, so you're saying: 'stop/reverse the corporatization of the university and the privatization of the public university'? I'm 100% with that. It makes me nervous, though, when I hear populist critiques of 'research' as pointless and of profs as out-of-touch pointy-heads."
Me:
Along these lines, what do you gents think about this piece? (I think it is a pretty illuminating critique overall, although of course to some extent Noble is leveraging it toward his quixotic campaign against the AGW consensus of climate scientists.)
"Peer Review as Censorship" http://www.counterpunch.org/mazur02262010.html
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