> Those scientists had stumbled into a parallel world of
> pseudo-academia, complete with prestigiously titled conferences and
> journals that sponsor them.
Ah, yes. I saw a bit of that 30 years ago while hanging out with
techies at MIT. People who were not themselves physical scientists or
mathematicians wanted to establish cred in the prestigious scientific
academic environment. I didn't encounter any totally bogus pubs but
there was a tendency to write a lot of impenetrable high-tech jargon
about trends, potential, variant approaches to problems, application
of technology $FOO to apparently unrelated problem or project $BAR
etc. Low S/N ratio, so to speak.
This led to proposals to establish the Bridgewater Institute for
Advanced Studies and the Scotia Centre for Advanced Media Studies.
Not to mention my own Zeitschrift für Bär-, Ferkel- und
Maultier-Kunst- und Kultur-Forschung. The inaugural edition is to
carry my own "In Search of Pooh", a quasi-Velikovskian [1] study
tracing the origins of the Winne the Pooh Mythos back through Rome,
then Egypt under Amen Hotep IV (Akhenaton), finally to the Epic of
Gilgamesh. Who knew?
I suppose I should be getting on with it, eh? If I want some
institution to give me access to JSTOR on their ticket? Or something?
And hey, if I charge a few under-achievers $500 to include their
papers, perhaps no one will notice that it's satire.
- Mike
[1] Not referencing his cosmic events trilogy but his Oedipus &
Akhnaton in which he proposes, in great detail, that the Oedipus
legend was emerged from the life and family of Akhenaton. That was
what he originally came to New York to research and write. The
cosmic stuff was a decade-long digression.
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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