How did I become an anti-intellectual intellectual? 🙂

After conversations with friends who share stories of collaborators not doing work, submitting fraudulent results, discarding reason, etc., I’m rapidly losing my confidence in modern academia altogether. I just want to finish my degree and do some real science already. It’s about ideas, not publications. It’s about advancing knowledge, not merely making the method sound like the solution to a grand problem. It’s about communicating results clearly and concisely, not obscuring them in pages of pseudo-intellectual jargon. It’s about openness, not skepticism. It’s about freedom, not censorship. It’s about learning, not servitude.

Until today’s academics realize this, almost all of science is a wasted endeavor. The few that keep it going in spite of the corruption are to be commended.