If graduates arent able to see & hold perspectives on the hollowing out of the Arts / aren't aware of the forces and incentives stripping out critiques of both how science operates and "what science is and isn't", we'll have glorified industrial training & no insights to solve the problems we face.

good lord yes. It's freakishly embarrassing that we produce graduates in science who cannot talk coherently about the demarcation problem, or logical positivism, or Popper or Kuhn let alone have a meaningful critique of any of these. Also: intentional, cynical fomenting of STEM vs nonSTEM tribalism.

there is enormous money in being a shithead, and pennies for people with a conscience

I thought the rest home hippies episode was particularly good

The lane is ‘women are slaves’ and he hasn’t moved at all—he’s still located in that Bronze Age open sewer

Seeing this headline I suddenly remember John Safran volunteering to literally get crucified for a story

So weird question.. but when I read horseshit transphobic books like shriers to be well equipped to explain firsthand what’s wrong with them when people refer to them, is there a decent approach to making sure I’m not contributing to her profits? Library not good? Would secondhand copy a better way?

So a sort of ‘digital antihumanities’, then. That does seem to make it more understandable yes.

Our famous Knowledge Economy prospects are spiralling down the drain. Anyone paying attention can sense our universities no longer aspire toward produce insights, but instead see their function as nothing more than a creche for future office plankton.

‘We don’t care about its contents at all, but we want to use the discussion around it as some sort of cynical football in some far off election year’