Grad school is worse for public health than STDs

Also on this theme of the need for graduate school reform:

Jeff Schmidt on the frustration of being ideologically disciplined in grad school to not make waves -- and ways to resist: http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/

David Goodstein on how the PhD system has been a collapsing pyramid scheme since the 1970s (and is taking down peer review with it): http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html

Philip Greenspun on sample bias in thinking academia is a good deal: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

An example of rampant academic financial exploitation in the humanities PhD system: https://www.villagevoice.com/2004/04/20/wanted-really-smart-...

Noam Chomsky on universities as complicit with power and filtering out those who are non-conforming: https://chomsky.info/199710__/

The Kept University on how corporate money and a quest for proprietary patents and copyrights is distorting academic research: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/03/the-kep...

Freeman Dyson on the need for (likely suffering) heretics with or without PhDs: http://www.exit109.com/~gosta/heretics.sht

Richard Nelson Bolles on rethinking the mix of work, education, and leisure in your life: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21098.The_Three_Boxes_of...