Also from The Anomalist I saw an article about a professor at ISU who studies Bigfoot. The article is generally about all the other pretentious professors who seem to hate him, and, honestly, I was getting a little angry about the whole thing until I read a quote from the dean of arts and sciences there:
"He's a bona fide scientist," Kijinski said. "I think he helps this university. He provides a form of open discussion and dissenting viewpoints that may not be popular with the scientific community, but that's what academics all about."
It's about time someone said it. I always thought that's what science and academics were both supposed to be about.
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Mate! You're talking about the Spanish Inquisition, not a group of people interested in learning, information or enlightenment.
Those ancient institutions are designed as sinecures and false meritocracies. He's lucky they didn't throw him out for actually practicing the scientific method and attempting to expand human awareness!
Or should eye have started with Dude!?
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Maybe I'm just lucky to have gone to a university where learning was the only important thing. And studies under a professor who was OK with any kind of research out there. I've always believed that that's the way most people were taught, but I keep hearing stories of that not being true for everyone. Like I said, maybe I just got lucky, but I figured that's the way it always was.
Nice blog, by the way, new illuminati.
when i took primatology with Mary Glenn at HSU, she told us we could NOT write our term papers on BIGFOOT!
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