Tom Sweetnam
Platinum Member
At one time, as recently as the early 70's, American universities and their research facilities led the world in scientific (especially medical) patents. Our universities were brainiac central, the best in the world. Then a malicious virus called Marxism infiltrated American academia and crushed many concepts born of The Age of Enlightenment, things like free expression, the free exchange of ideas, and especially (in the modern American lexicon), "thinking outside the box."
It became an unspoken thought crime for individual faculty members to excel beyond the norm of the average idiot who now represents the lowest common denominator in university teaching. These morons wouldn't last a week in the private sector, and they know it, thus half their railing against those evil corporationie thingies is born from envy and resentment and nothing else.
Today, almost 80% of important patents in engineering, medicine, and pharmacology are born in the private sector, not on campus. So why do we continue to waste billions on mediocrity when we could be pumping that money into private sector research facilities and projects where we actually get a return on our dollars?
It became an unspoken thought crime for individual faculty members to excel beyond the norm of the average idiot who now represents the lowest common denominator in university teaching. These morons wouldn't last a week in the private sector, and they know it, thus half their railing against those evil corporationie thingies is born from envy and resentment and nothing else.
Today, almost 80% of important patents in engineering, medicine, and pharmacology are born in the private sector, not on campus. So why do we continue to waste billions on mediocrity when we could be pumping that money into private sector research facilities and projects where we actually get a return on our dollars?