Re:Why Academic Freedom Matters (2021)
by nradov on Monday July 25, 2022 @02:07PM
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You are being irrational and ideological. It is unreasonable to hold academics accountable for policy decisions. We should instead demand that our elected leaders not set policy based on generally low-quality academic fields such as economics, at least not until research results have been independently replicated multiple times.
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Re:Why Academic Freedom Matters (2021)
by hikingsimulator on Monday July 25, 2022 @02:39PM
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When one of the stated goals of a discipline like Economics is to help drive economic decisions, i.e. policy, it is not an unwarranted expectation that the milieu that led to them be held accountable. Science is not performed in a vacuum.
Science should be performed in a vacuum, that's the whole point. Its applications, on the other hand, are not to be performed in a vacuum.
Re:Why Academic Freedom Matters (2021)
by hikingsimulator on Monday July 25, 2022 @05:34PM
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It's not achievable, and likely never will. Even research in physics or mathematics is embedded in internal department politics and financing issues that influenced what is researched, who does the research, and ultimately who gets the rewards.