Kulturkampf

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Shame on academia for even entertaining this sort of shit as valid.

As much as I hate to ever defend academia, it's mostly not treated as anything but a joke outside of the fields. The only reason any of this stuff gets cited in political science, for example, is because there's nowhere else to find the claims that the article writer wants to push.

I'd say the media, and even lay people, treat it more seriously than academia does because they have no sense of how much garbage is published across all humanities fields, even the decent ones.

A mechanical engineer explained to me that the university system is one of the only feudalistic institutions left.