Scientists are worthless.
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I think any actual scientists left are probably in the private sector in things like Space X, Pharmaceuticals and defence contractors.
Anyone else with the title of scientist in the western world tend to be jokes even compared to snakeoil salesmen.
The number of people in “high IQ professions” has massively increased over time while the actual distribution of high IQ people has largely remained constant. The end result is way more non-geniuses with genius credentials; professions that were once considered signifiers of high intelligence are now dominated by midwits and idiots.
It’s also because higher degrees have become so devalued…
Masters is the new Bachelors. PhD is the new Masters. And yet the number of actually useful things one can do a PhD in has remained largely the same. Hence the utter devaluation of the qualification…
I went to a PhD information session where I was essentially told that if you wanted funding, and to “do well”, you would pick from this list of topics your (woke) faculty had pre-ordained, and take whatever supervisor they recommended you…
Higher level academia was never meant to work like that. That’s a recipe for disaster…
But, gotta keep churning out those grads, I guess!
It was… Disappointing, to say the least.
I hate to think how bad it must be in the Humanities, now…