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caraher

(6,278 posts)

7. Good stuff

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Sat Dec 7, 2013, 06:02 PM

Dec 2013

I'm glad he also hates the "God particle" moniker.

I'm fortunate not to have to publish. It's perhaps unsurprising how high the ratio of bad papers to good research can be, when every career incentive is to work to the "minimum publishable unit" of new results rather than to study something in depth.

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Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system [View all] n2doc Dec 2013 OP

It's the same in the humanities BainsBane Dec 2013 #1

My cousin and her husband are both PhDs... CherokeeDem Dec 2013 #3

'struth.... mike_c Dec 2013 #2

True that Galileo126 Dec 2013 #4

k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t Laelth Dec 2013 #5

yup--you can't get a job with a degree in the humanities OR in the sciences MisterP Dec 2013 #6

Good stuff caraher Dec 2013 #7