Posted on 09/14/2023 2:39:08 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
He probably had grad students doing his teaching & consulting on the side.
Just the tip of the iceberg.
somehow the local Miami media didn’t get around to reporting this story.
Particularly applicable to Democrat politicians.
He’ll be welcomed at an HBCU with open arms.
Based on what I’ve seen, it can’t be any worse than the Accounting Department at LSU.
Because we've entered an era where all pretense towards previously sacrosanct doctrines about the scientific method and journalistic integrity have been dropped. We now live in an era of financially, socially and politically motivated advocacy in the sciences and media. Media needs fake science to support their advocacy, to sensationalize it for profit along the way. Politicians need it to grandstand and divide and control. The bureaucratic class profit from it and cottage industries of advocacy are built on taxpayer money to preach, who need evidence to "convince" you they are right. You can't get a government grant unless you disclose in advance that you intend the attempt to support whatever the grantor wants you to prove. You can't get a teaching job unless you take a loyalty oath. You can't keep your teaching job unless you publish, and you can't get published if you don't adhere to the party line.
Your comment is unsurprising to this old Tulane grad.
research grants...base pay for a professor is much less than 190k.
Half a** U
My mom went to FSU and she was the first one to tell me that “Half-A$$-U” was a nickname when I was a teenager. I hadn’t heard that one in a while.
The graduate from LSU was unable to keep up with his workload. It created huge problems for the rest of us. We have a really good team now, looking forward to us melding together.
He had to fake his data! Otherwise no one would pay attention to him!
They get paid to have studies published. So the work is pressured. The administration set goals which are achieved in order to get a raise and tenure. The public votes for this with taxes for public schools and sends their kids there. Everything outside of labs, experimental operations, exhibits, hands on training, stages,and performance in most colleges can be taught outside of college. I would guess that school budgets and tuition would be halved if the excess padding was removed. Lots of Ph.D.s in art and theater would be hardworking house painters or short order cooks.
LSU has a large campus studded with impressive solid buildings and a tall concrete football stadium that generates intimidating crowd noise against visiting teams. As is is often the case though with major public universities, the political environment and revenue model call for low tuition and mass admission, which in turn requires large classes, easy grading, and low student workloads. LSU is inevitably a party school. One can get an academic education at LSU but it is not required for graduation.
It’s a 3rd rate hustle. Amazing what some people go along with nowadays. A wink and a nod and 190k per year. We’re all being scammed.
Pretty common for any large university and probably nothing compared to how top cops or even firefighters, counting “overtime”, and other government employees make out within his state. (Still nothing, of course, like in CA, IL, FL or MA, for example.)
Guvs have plenty of other ways to make money from their positions.
Same reason the theories of Sigmund Freud gained such widespread acceptance among the coastal elites in the 1950s and '60s.
Pseudo-scientific twaddle that gives moral justification for the self-gratification practices of the powerful elite strata of society will always gain widespread acceptance.
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