Word: academicization
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The future sociology concentrator says that his academic experience as a Harvard undergraduate had an influence on his disbelief of the U.S. government’s report of 9/11. Espada says that he learned a great deal about conspiracies in such classes as Political Sociology as well as Organizational Sociology...
For the first third of his medical career, Thomas P. Stossel says he was your “typical academic socialist”—buried in research and clinical work.
But those stances have drawn fire from many of Stossel’s colleagues, who say academic medicine has long suffered from ethical breeches because ties to industry have gone unregulated, and that Stossel’s statements ignore the potential for bias introduced by industry involvement.
But he adds that those in favor of regulation retain the upper-hand because the path of least resistance for academic leadership is to try to curb dissent—which he says explains the changes at Harvard’s affiliates.
Harvard is full of startlingly normal people who are as surprised to be here as you are. And, actually, there is a scientific reason for this. Dean William Fitzimmons explained that Harvard admits only about 300 people for purely academic reasons, the rare geniuses who rediscovered plutonium and finished Math...