"Over the last thirty years, in parallel with deregulation and the
rising power of money in American politics, significant portions of
American academia have deteriorated into "pay to play" activities."
Here is a book excerpt about the corruption of "experts" from powerful
tax exempt universities.
I've previously described on the list how the attack against public
education and teachers was exactly the same as the attack against social
services and social workers in the 1990s decade. Using the pretext of
expert evaluation and catching lazy practitioners, universities gave
cover to a process of devaluing professionals into technicians.
Workloads were doubled and paper work burdens exploded to sabotage the
meager interventions for veterans with PTSD and all the problems
associated with poverty. (e.g. substance addiction, homelessness,
untreated psych problems etc.)
In my own area of research, I saw that academia supported endless
pharmaceutical treatments for substance abuse, while working tirelessly
against funding interventions, which were enormously successful by
treating patients holistically with professional people to people
interventions. They used their idiotic, pathetic, simplistic research
about costs and benefits to justify the corporate agenda. These great
men and women never allowed reasonable trials to prove that people can
return to society if the front line workers are empowered to help them!
Universities no longer have much to do with the public good, but have
everything to do with corporate agendas and the age of massive bullshit!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-ferguson/academic-corruption_b_1532944.html
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