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It would be nice to see some STEM-affirmative universities without any x-studies leaching. Professional complainer is a viable career path these days and it starts at uni.

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Huh? I might have misinterpreted your point, but you might have it backward. Most STEM courses are subsidised by "studies" and humanities. It can cost multiples more to teach a biology student than an English one, and that cost is offset by it being less than fees to teach the latter and more than fees to teach the former.

A university would have a hard time having a competitive science department without leaching cash from the business studies faculty.

Listening to Jonathan Haidt its pretty scary stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBegL_V6AA

Listening to Jonathan Haidt its pretty scary stuff.

Don't listen to it then.

By the way the, UK isn't the same as the US, our problems aren't necessarily the same as yours.

Ignorance is bliss.

Don't listen to the media and you are uninformed, listen to the media and you are misinformed. I know which I prefer.

Probably the media you listen to with an opinion like that.

Didn't you just post a video to some crackpot on YouTube?

> Listening to Jonathan Haidt its pretty scary stuff.

Because that's what a fear monger does.

Ugh, that's dystopian. There's bullshit on both sides of the university (stem and humanities). They're symbiotic and they need each other and the world desperately needs more people skilled in both.

Stephen Hawking doesn't become Stephen Hawking without an awareness and understanding of the humanities.

You are generalizing the criticism of "x-studies" to a criticism of the humanities as a whole, which I do not think is what was meant at all.

Not to mention people like Frege, Russel, Gödel, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, and so on and the impact they had on the foundation of mathematics, theory of language and theoretical CS.

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