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[ By Patrick J. Michaels This article appeared on The Daily Caller on February 10, 2011. In a recent and wonderful New York Times essay, John Tierney documented the pervasive left-leaning bias of the social sciences in particular and academia in general, which he persuasively painted as the home of tired ideological groupthink. No doubt his essay was an eye-opener for anyone without much experience in the ivy morass, even as it came up short in its search for causation. ....]

"More and more academic papers that are essentially gobbledegook are being written by computer programs - and accepted at conferences * Higgs would not have found his boson in today's publish-or-perish research culture"

"It is difficult to associate open source programmers and companies with what some writers have called "hacker culture" or "the hacker ethic." Instead, open source values, and projects such as Linux, can be traced to academia."

"PROGRAMA PROVISIONAL ¿Cultura o barbarie? Diez propuestas al borde del abismo Jueves, 5 de noviembre de 2015 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía Mañana 10:30-12:00 h. Mesa institucional Intervienen: José Luis Acosta, presidente de la Sociedad de General de Autores y Editores (SGAE). Basilio Baltasar, director de la Fundación Santillana (área cultural). Fernando Carro, presidente de Bertelsmann España y miembro del Comité ejecutivo. Laura Halpern, directora de la Fundación Jesús Serra Ignacio Polanco, presidente de la Fundación Santillana. Pere Portabella, presidente de la Fundación Alternativas. 12:00-12:30 h. Pausa 12:30-14:00 h. El papel de las políticas y el Estado Modera: Luz Sanchez-Mellado, periodista de El País. Intervienen: Carmen Alborch, ex ministra de cultura y senadora. Juan Cruz, adjunto a la dirección de El País para Cultura y Babelia. Santiago Eraso, director de contenidos de Madrid Destino. Rosina Gómez-Baeza, presidenta de Factoría Cultural, Vivero de Industrias Creativas. Enric Juliana, periodista de La Vanguardia. César Antonio Molina, escritor y director de la Casa del Lector. 14:00-16:00 h. Almuerzo Tarde 16:00-17:30 h. Decálogo: exigencias y urgencias Modera: Joana Bonet, articulista de La Vanguardia. Intervienen: Antonio María Ávila, director ejecutivo de la Federación del Gremio de Editores. Jesús Cimarro, presidente de la Federación Estatal de Asociaciones de Empresas Productoras de Teatro y Danza de España. Ramon Colom, presidente FAPAE (Confederación de Productores Audiovisuales Españoles). Patricia Gabeiras, directora de Legal Music Producciones Vocal en la Junta Directiva de la Asociación de Promotores Musicales. Isidro López-Aparicio, artista plástico y miembro de la UAAV, Unión de Asociaciones de Artistas Visuales. Profesor de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Granada y del Instituto Superior de Investigación para La

"by Julia Belluz, Brad Plumer, and Brian Resnick on July 14, 2016 "Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation to find easy paths." - Paul Kalanithi, neurosurgeon and writer (1977-2015) Science is in big trouble. Or so we're told. In the past several years, many scientists have become afflicted with a serious case of doubt - doubt in the very institution of science."

"Open is about sharing and collaboration. It's the idea that "we" is more powerful, more rewarding and fulfilling than "I". I can't promise jobs, but I do know that open is becoming very big. Governments and funders are pushing the open agenda, even though academics are generally uninterested or seriously self-interested."