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  • Other than the medieval church, global academia has the fundamentals right, imho. The methods are flawed but the general goal is the right one.

    The problem in the US is not a fundamental flaw in academia, but lack of political understanding that a state benefits from educated citizens and fundamental research that isn’t immediately monetisable. That resulted in this weird situation, where the most prestigious facilities are just sport centers with a side hustle in education.

    In the future the methods of today’s global research will more likely be seen as something like greek philosophers. The goal of generating knowledge was right. The method of just writing down what your two remaining neurons, that haven’t drowned in wine yet, produced and never verifying it, was… let’s call it flawed from a modern perspective.




  • Because they state that free healthcare is automatically bad healthcare. Which, as a general statement, is just wrong.

    Free Healthcare is a broad term for dozens of different policies in dozens of different countries. Just because OP’s specific country has problems, doesn’t mean that every single implementation of free healthcare leads to bad healthcare. Also a similar rhetoric is used as a dog whistle by the far right in the USA.

    Additionally they are using a specific question about their situation, to rant about a much broader topic. This soapboxing called behaviour is generally frowned upon.

    So the comment in isolation is wrong, attention seeking & looks like written by someone who is something between a manchild, that is unable/unwilling to present a nuanced opinion, and a nazi. All of which are imho criteria for a downvote.