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GK's avatar

A lot of PhDs probably consider themselves an authority in whatever field they're in. They expect to be listened to when they offer advice, and if you aren't a fellow expert in the same field, expect unquestioning agreement with them. It would be natural for them to extend that obeisance to other PhDs from a field they're not expert in.

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Brian Mowrey's avatar

I bought into the CMU results under the reasoning that awareness of their own field's intellectual corruption would make them perceive that the biological sciences are just as hollow...

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