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Re:Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence by queuebert on Saturday August 07, 2021 @09:25AM (#28098418)
You're entirely correct. Academia is broken is so many ways. A lot of my colleagues are wastes of space and some are indeed harmful. I don't think I'm a great advisor either. No one teaches us how to advise students.

My take is based entirely on facts of the article interpreted through an advisor's lens rather than that of a journalist trying to get clicks.

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Re:Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence by ablearcher83 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @12:11PM (#28099678)
The fact that the advisor in the OP changed their stories multiple times indicates duplicity. Your inability to see that, coupled with an abrupt allegation against the journalist suggests self-deception
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Re:Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence by wolverine876 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:47AM (#28099472)
> a journalist trying to get clicks

Now you've also fabricated something about the journalist, their motive and character. Do you have any factual basis for that? What do you know about the journalist?

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Re:Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence by amrcnimgrnt on Saturday August 07, 2021 @09:36AM (#28098490)
You know what, I owe you an apology for this:

"[1] I'll admit it's a bit weird to see a professor that I'm assuming given the forum, is in a tech field "read between the lines" instead of engaging the facts."

I'll keep it up in my comment because I despise it when ppl scrub clean what they wrote.

Either way, sorry for making it personal.

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Re:Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence by queuebert on Saturday August 07, 2021 @10:36AM (#28098883)
HN is the best people. Thanks for the apology and no hard feelings here.

And I'm sorry if you had some bad experiences in grad school. Some of us, at least, are trying to be better.

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