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By Professor Doom      Advanced mathematics is not for the uninitiated. Even with years of training, it�s easy enough to go to a research seminar and have at best merely a basic idea of what the latest findings are about. Experts in the field usually understand completely of course, but even if what�s being said seems incomprehensible to the layman there�s no way you can �fake it� well enough to fool an expert. In short: while both an expert mathematician and a lunatic can spew what looks like mathematical gibberish, only the former can do it in a way that�s still comprehensible to mathematicians. You just can�t fake it well enough to fool an expert.       I�ve looked at research in other fields, with the belief that I�d only understand only the basics. Thus, I was surprised to find �advanced topics� in Education and Administration are incredibly basic and accessible to anyone, even if other fields (hi Physics!) definitely made me feel quite ...

By Professor Doom      Ah, it�s summer time, the days when the perpetual deadlines during the semester don�t exist. It also means the insanity slows down a bit, so I have time for less serious things.      Ultra Spiritual Life is a series of parody videos by a YouTube user with account name AwakenWithJP. The videos vary from beyond hysterical to droll, and cover a wide range of topics, from the anti-gluten craze and vegetarianism (recommended!) to atheism and flat Earth theory. And, of course, there is a video on higher education .       All good humor has at least a grain of truth to it, and the video is funny because he accurately describes much of the invalid thinking regarding higher ed. Trouble is, most people are unfamiliar with the truths he addresses, so allow me to highlight a few. �The most intelligent way to make money is to find a way to get $100,000 in debt before you even begin to make money�so I decided to g...

By Professor Doom      Intelligence is a tough thing to measure. We have all sorts of tests, and all of them are subject to various criticisms, many valid. Despite this, it�s clear the tests are at least a little reliable, because one ethnic group consistently comes out on top: Asians (statistically, which means very little when addressing a specific individual).       It�s no secret that the status of the Social Justice Warrior has dropped a bit in the last six months. Despite their deep self-righteousness and assertions of well-meaning, they�re often held in disdain. This disdain is returned, of course,  and we�re told ad nauseam how people that don�t like SJWs are rednecks, hicks, fascists, Nazis, or, of course, deplorable .      The Chinese, of course, can hardly be called rednecks or Nazis, and they even adopted communism, the favored ideology of the SJW. And, they�re smart. So what do they think of the beliefs o...

By Professor Doom      It�s no secret identity politics is a big factor in success these days; I mean, we�ve people �self-identifying� as black or American Indian, and scoring pretty good jobs just on the basis of that identification. Granted, this only holds until the �true� identity, whatever that means, is found out, but not every such faker is found, I assure the gentle reader. Moreover, steps are usually taken to make sure the identity is legit, or, hopefully, to make sure the hire is more obviously the correct race or gender. This was especially true when it came to hiring females, though we can�t be so sure of that anymore (not that we should care).      Higher education has descended to the point where you can�t hire a physicist if he�s a white male, it�s only natural to push a little harder to make sure only the most politically correct races and genders occupy all professorial positions.     Every institution I�ve be...

By Professor Doom      As we see our campuses descend into riots over the most idiotic, non-academic issues of concern only to the most rabid of Social Justice Warriors, many huge questions arise. Why did Berkeley police stand down in the face of Leftist rioters ? Why are the administrators and staff assaulting students who support free speech ? Why is it the independent press that identifies the attackers, and not the mainstream media or police ?       One question stands above all others: how did the SJWs take over higher education? While the answer is �one position at a time,� it�s interesting to follow the tactics involved. An incident at Duke Divinity demonstrates how it works, and while the incident occurred a few months ago, only recently did the documentation finally get leaked to the public.       The beginning of the incident is simple enough, yet another SJW-inspired meeting on campus : On behalf of the Fac...