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The nail here has been hit on its head with a large, heavy, well-aimed hammer. In Oct 2020, I wrote a piece titled "Irrational science and the virus of bureaucracy". It highlighted the idiocy of Trisha Greenhalgh who at that time was baying for more lockdowns and was boasting, if memory serves me correctly, 26 letters after her name. Had this poem been written much earlier, it would have allowed me to be a lot more poetically rude about her "academese-steeped disease".

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“The nail here has been hit on its head with a large, heavy, well-aimed hammer.” — Thanks for the comp! Apart from being what I consider to be one of my “major” poems, this poem is also one my favourites. No doubt this is due to the force and cleanness of the hammer blow.

While the corruption/capture/perversion of academia has been going on for a very very long time, it's recent acceleration has been gobsmacking in its speed, breadth and brazenness. Already, back in 2017/18, the “grievance studies affair” (Boghossian, Lindsay and Pluckrose), while stunning to outsiders, merely exposed what those rarities who were both sane and close to the action, could not have failed to notice on the reg.

PS: any live links to the piece you mentioned?

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I wasn't aware of the "grievance studies affair". Just read about it now on Wikipedia and had a good chuckle wondering what a hoot it would be to read a chapter of mein kampf in feminist language.

Here's the piece I referred to:

https://plagueonbothhouses.substack.com/p/irrational-science-and-the-virus-of-bureaucracy

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They certainly had a hoot writing the papers. Here's a link to a deeper dive ... https://newdiscourses.com/2020/01/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/

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Ta!

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damn, well put, cheers.

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Thanks ... your appreciation is appreciated.

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